Shrouding the Heavens: Starting by joining the Holy Land of Yao Guang

Chapter 356 Holy Spirit Stone Token
God's burial place.

Black winds howled, gods cried and ghosts howled, and all sorts of flying sand swirled wildly, as if ancient divine phenomena had appeared in the world.

In the center, there is an ancient well from which come thumping sounds, as if something is hitting the well and trying to burst out, or like the heartbeat of some creature, sending chills down one's spine.

"In the mythological era, the Dao Venerable suppressed and killed a Great Perfection Holy Spirit, dismembered him, and then sealed the parts on the ancient road of the human race, hoping to refine an astonishing immortal liquid from them."

Inside the burial ground of the gods, Daoist Qinghuang spoke, explaining the origin of the ancient well to Li Yao and the old madman.

Li Yao was quite clear about this, but the old madman was unaware of the details. Upon hearing this, he nodded and said, "So the Holy Spirit lineage has been scheming for the immortal liquid left behind after the Great Perfection Holy Spirit is refined?"

In that case, it's understandable why the Holy Spirit lineage mobilized so many powerful individuals.

The Great Perfection Saint Spirit is the strongest being in the Saint Spirit lineage, a being who can rival the Great Emperor. The immortal liquid refined from his body is an absolutely rare divine treasure in the world, no wonder the Saint Spirit lineage is so crazy.

Gao Tianjun shook his head, his eyes burning with intensity, and said, "Not only that, but ancient human records state that this Great Perfection Holy Spirit was exceptionally talented and was born prematurely. However, he created a supreme heavenly technique called the Heaven-Mending Scripture, which allows prematurely born Holy Spirits to replenish their origins and cultivate to the Great Perfection realm. The Holy Spirit race should desire this heavenly technique the most."

The Holy Spirit is favored by Heaven. Once it is conceived to perfection, it will be born as a Quasi-Emperor of the Ninth Heaven. Its combat power is extremely strong, comparable to that of a Great Emperor, and no weaker than the Great Perfection of the Holy Body or the Great Perfection of the Overlord Body.

But nothing in this world is perfect. While being blessed with unique advantages, there are also huge flaws.

If the Holy Spirit is born prematurely due to an accident, it will result in a deficiency in one's origin. Once one reaches the limit of cultivation, one will be unable to make any further progress.

Therefore, the Heaven-Mending Scripture is no less than a celestial scripture to the Holy Spirit. If one cultivates it and replenishes one's origin, one can achieve a perfect body. If one reaches the ultimate level and transforms, one can even attain the Dao and become an Emperor.

"Such an ancient well poses too many uncertainties for the ancient human path. Some of the human race's powerful figures also want to take this opportunity to open the well with the help of other races and eliminate it forever," said Daoist Qinghuang.

Gao Tianjun nodded and said, "Actually, the human race knows more about these ancient wells than the Holy Spirit lineage. There is great terror within them. The original plan was to abandon the tenth level if we really couldn't stop them, and let the alien alliance open the ancient wells, using the great terror within to kill several Great Saints."

Of course, that was a last resort. It meant killing ten thousand enemies but losing eight thousand of our own. We must thank our two fellow Daoists for their rescue; otherwise, the tenth level might have collapsed.

Li Yao sneered and looked at the ancient well, saying, "Abandoning the tenth level, letting the alien race fight the monsters in the well, and then looking for an opportunity to break out and seize the divine treasure—aren't you afraid of messing things up?"

Qinghuang Daoist and Gao Tianjun remained silent. This time, they had really gone too far. With a quasi-emperor descending from the Holy Spirit lineage, their idea of ​​seizing the divine treasure was nothing short of a pipe dream.

Moreover, the tenth level is just the beginning. Once the alien race obtains the fortune from this demonic well, they will inevitably continue forward, opening the other demonic wells and obtaining all the fortune of the Great Perfection Holy Spirit.

The Demon Wells are scattered throughout important nodes of the ancient human path, and they will inevitably collapse in the war, resulting in devastating losses.

It can be said that if Li Yao had not descended this time, countless nodes of the ancient human path would have collapsed.

"We never expected that the Holy Spirit lineage would send out so many powerful figures," sighed Daoist Qinghuang.

Li Yao couldn't say anything about this. The quasi-emperor of the Holy Spirit lineage descended to the Ancient Road because of his own reasons, and he didn't appear in the original work.

Even excluding that quasi-emperor, the human race also struggled to withstand the onslaught. In the original story, the ancient road was ravaged by war for twenty years, and many cities and passes were destroyed. If it weren't for Gai Jiuyou leading imperial troops to quell the rebellion, who knows how long the fighting would have lasted.

All of this was actually caused by the arrogance of the human race. This world is a golden age, with many powerful figures emerging on the ancient path, leading them to believe that they have nothing to fear from other races.

If the ancient human path had sent messages to all corners of the universe before the war began, inviting powerful individuals to come to its aid, this situation would not have occurred.

Admittedly, the human race is fragmented and is a notoriously disorganized race. However, the ancient human road, a star road that has existed for an unknown period of time and is spread throughout the universe, is the wealth of the entire human race. The strength of the human race is largely related to this ancient road.

When it comes to racial interests, they may remain indifferent, but given the large number of people involved, there will surely be many who understand the greater good and will come to their aid.

Small things add up; the so-called alliance of different races can't really cause any trouble.

At the very least, it won't deteriorate to the point depicted in the original story, where the ancient human path crumbled into several sections, resulting in the deaths of countless humans and the immense resources consumed in post-war reconstruction.

Of course, this is all hindsight. Li Yao knew the outcome beforehand, which is why he thought this way. He only gave a slight reprimand and then let the matter drop.

Qinghuang Daoist and Gao Tianjun breathed a sigh of relief. Although Li Yao was less than a fraction of their age, strength was paramount in the cultivation world. Facing a being capable of killing a quasi-emperor, they still felt some pressure.

"Huh?" Li Yao was suddenly taken aback and looked down at the ground.

"What's wrong?" The old madman asked curiously when he saw Li Yao's actions.

Gao Tianjun and Qinghuang Daoren thought there was something wrong with the Demon Well, so they looked at the ground curiously, but found nothing.

Li Yao pondered for a moment, then looked at the curious group and explained, "It has nothing to do with this place. It's because the great formation that I used to seal the Divine Refining Pot and the Supreme Artifact has changed. It seems that the Light Clan has also joined in."

The three of them gasped for breath. Sealing the Divine Refining Pot and the Supreme Artifact? Had they misheard?

Seeing the expressions on the three people's faces, Li Yao casually recounted how he had suppressed the Holy Spirit Cangyan and the evil god of the Light Clan, and sealed the Emperor Weapon and the Supreme Artifact.

"Cang Yan has actually perished. No wonder he didn't come this time!"

"The Refining God Pot has been suppressed, and there's also a Great Perfection Holy Spirit Artifact!"

The Azure Phoenix Daoist and the High Heavenly Lord were shocked.

The news I just heard was absolutely explosive: an imperial weapon and a supreme artifact had been suppressed for several years.

There were also Holy Spirit Azure Flame and Evil God, both invincible powerhouses. The former was on the same level as the Old Madman, and was also a Great Sage at the pinnacle of finding his own path. Unexpectedly, he perished in a place unknown to them.

The Holy Spirit Clan and the Light Clan concealed the news very well; otherwise, it would have definitely caused a stir.

Ignoring the shocked group, Li Yao looked at the Demon Well. The seal was about to break, and terrifying sounds kept coming from the well, like a million volcanoes about to erupt.

An old Taoist priest appeared, his figure blurry and seemingly real, sitting cross-legged on the well's edge, chanting profound scriptures. Though ethereal, he possessed an aura of invincibility that seemed to transcend the heavens and earth.

He was suppressing the well to prevent its contents from appearing in the world, but over countless years, even the power left behind by the Heavenly Venerable was almost worn away. Furthermore, the Holy Spirit's sacrifice of the blood of countless living beings made him even weaker.

"It's about to be opened, but I wonder which part of the Great Perfection Holy Spirit is sealed within this Demon Well?" Gao Tianjun was horrified.

The thought of witnessing a part of the body of a Great Perfection Holy Spirit, even a Great Sage, still stirred my heart.

The group waited quietly, and finally, with a tremendous roar, the old Taoist's figure disappeared, vanishing into the annals of time.

At the same time, the sky collapsed and the earth cracked, the Demon Well exploded and shattered into pieces, and the seal was completely broken.

"Woooooooo..."

The air was filled with the wailing of ghosts and the howling of the wind, with blood raining down from the sky. The scene was extremely eerie, as if this place had been transformed into an infernal hell, with ghosts and gods emerging to turn this place into a living hell.

Li Yao and the others possessed extraordinary cultivation levels, and they showed no fear of the changing scene before them. They simply stood quietly, their bodies unmoved.

The howling wind continued, gradually growing louder. A yellow whirlwind rose from the original wellhead and then transformed into a black gale, blotting out the sky and plunging Dayuepo into darkness, where one could not see their hand in front of their face.

Suddenly, a gust of wind swept through the impenetrable black clouds, and corpses fell from them, both sacred and sinister, like the fall of gods and demons.

What followed was a rain of blood and the roars of gods and demons.

"What an astonishing phenomenon! The blood rain is corrosive. Even a Saint King would be annihilated if he were unprepared and came into contact with it." Gao Tianjun reached out and caught the blood rain, his pupils narrowing slightly.

It's just the prelude, yet it's already so exaggerated; who knows how troublesome the things in the ancient well are.

However, when they looked at Li Yao, all their worries disappeared. With this divine being there, no anomaly could cause any trouble.

Unless that Great Perfection Holy Spirit is resurrected, but that is impossible, endless ages have passed, and even the Great Emperor would turn to dust.

"boom!"

A deafening roar erupted from the ancient well, which began to shake violently. A pale hand, under the watchful eyes of several people, gripped the edge of the well.

The palms were bloodless, an unnatural pale white, but after the blood rain fell on them, they changed slightly, turning a touch of red. The ghostly thing in the well let out a mournful howl, as if it were quite satisfied.

boom!
Another loud bang, and another pale hand gripped the edge of the well. Then a figure leaped out and soared into the sky, revealing its full form to the group.

This is a humanoid creature wearing ancient armor, but due to the corrosion of time, the armor has long since rotted away, turning into fragments embedded in the flesh, looking like a mermaid with bulging scales, densely packed, making people feel uneasy.

He was majestic, with disheveled hair that partially obscured his face, but from what was visible, he appeared extremely ferocious, like a demon. The blood rain that corroded normal living beings was like a great tonic to this evil creature; after he appeared, he sucked up the blood rain, letting out a joyful roar.

"It seems we have failed." Gao Tianjun sighed softly, with some regret.

Qinghuang Daoist also sighed. This was a sign of the failure of the immortal liquid refining. Originally a blessing for future generations, it had now become a great disaster.

"When Dao Zun killed that Holy Spirit, he was already old and did not have time to refine it himself. He could only do it in this way, like brewing wine, letting time settle it."

The Taoist Qinghuang described the scene recorded in the ancient book. If successful, there would be a fragrant aroma; if unsuccessful, there would be a ghostly mist.

If this ancient well is like this, then the rest of the ancient wells are likely to be the same.

Just as Qinghuang was telling her story, another demon flew out of the ancient well. It roared to the sky, opened its hideous maw, and swallowed the blood rain that filled the sky. Its aura gradually grew stronger.

Li Yao stood quietly, waiting for the gods and demons to gather their power.

Perhaps to others this is a failed creation, but to him, gods and demons are creation itself. They absorb blood rain to become stronger, and then... he eats them and becomes even stronger.

These ghostly things are all formed from the essence and blood of the Holy Spirit. Although they look a bit shabby, the essence contained within them is truly precious.

Time passed slowly, and the ancient well continued to spew out black mist, roars echoed, and one after another, gods and demons soared into the sky and came to the earth, looking up to receive the nourishment of the blood rain as if in worship.

In a short while, more than a dozen demons and monsters appeared on the ground. They were strong and terrifying, exuding a monstrous demonic aura. Their roars shook the mountains and rivers, and the heavens and earth trembled.

The Great Moon Slope has been transformed into a demonic land. Even from afar, it makes one's heart tremble. It exudes an aura that evokes instinctive fear in all living beings, like animals seeing their natural enemy.

Li Yao remained motionless, while the old madman, Qinghuang Daoist, and Gao Tianjun stood quietly beside him, observing.

After the ancient well was blasted open, there was a huge iceberg that was slowly melting away. These gods and ghosts were sealed inside the iceberg, which is why they were able to survive for so long instead of turning into weathered bones with the passage of time.

A moment later, Li Yao made his move, but instead of shattering the gods and demons, he used his supreme magical power to break the ice mountain and release all the gods and demons inside.

Instantly, dozens or even hundreds of ghostly creatures surged up, roaring amidst the rain of blood, their divine light growing ever more intense and their power even greater.

"Boom!"

The iceberg exploded, completely connecting the wellhead to the outside world. Thick black fog surged up, engulfing Dayuepo. It was pitch black, and only pairs of blood-red eyes could be seen rising and falling in the black fog, which was extremely terrifying.

"boom!"

Suddenly, the ancient well trembled violently, bursting forth with boundless divine light that dispersed the dense black mist. An aura that even the Great Sage found terrifying surged into the sky, sweeping across the heavens.

"Not good!" Qinghuang Daoist and Gaotianjun shouted.

That terrifying divine power erupted like billions of volcanoes, shattering the sky. The tenth level was right on its path, and if it wasn't stopped, the ancient city would be reduced to dust by this force.

On the tenth level, everyone's hearts pounded as they sensed a world-destroying wave sweeping across the starry sky. Stars were exploding, bursting into a sky full of flames, and a hole was torn open in the heavens.

"What is this? Another terrifying being has descended!" People exclaimed in fear.

Even before this divine power arrived, it had already created signs of world destruction. If it were to descend, the tenth level would definitely be destroyed as a result, and they would naturally be doomed.

"Come on tripod!"

Just when everyone was terrified, a majestic voice rang out, like a melodious divine sound, resounding throughout the heavens and the myriad realms.

"boom!"

A sky full of green clouds, from the tenth level, another supreme aura erupted, and then a green cauldron soared into the sky, its immortal light traversing heaven and earth, suppressing the universe.

It was a broken green cauldron, with a large hole in the bottom and parts of the cauldron wall missing, leaving only the legs and part of the body.

But this very cauldron now exuded a power capable of destroying the universe. With a gentle tremor, it calmed the world-destroying fluctuations, then flew out of the tenth level and plummeted towards the ancient star below.

Inside the ancient hall, Longma was startled and looked at Ye Fan with disbelief.

"You actually obtained that cauldron from the Immortal Ascension Ground?"

It was extremely shocked. Back when it and Li Yao were in the land of immortality, the gods had said that the cauldron had a great cause and effect and should not be moved. This cause and effect was related to the Holy Body Ye Fan.
"You've also been to the land of immortals?"

……

"boom!"

The heavens and earth trembled, and the green cauldron drew a rainbow bridge, casting down a sky full of rosy light, descending upon the burial ground of the gods. Terrifying fluctuations intertwined, and all paths submitted, all suppressed by the ancient cauldron.

The black mist dissipated, and the world-destroying fluctuations were completely suppressed. Hundreds of gods and ghosts wailed and prostrated themselves on the ground, unable to resist the power emanating from the green cauldron.

"what is that?"

Suddenly, Gao Tianjun shouted and pointed to the ancient well.

The green cauldron descended, the black mist dissipated, and the blazing divine light was compressed, revealing the scene there.

A sacred, pure white lotus flower flew out from the broken ancient well. It was about ten feet in size, and as soon as it appeared, it exuded an aura that made even the Great Sage bow down in worship.

Blood splattered everywhere, black mist filled the air, it was extremely eerie, yet the pure white lotus was incomparably holy. The combination of the two made people feel extremely strange, as if the Buddha sat cross-legged in a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, a chilling smile playing on his lips.

In this setting, the appearance of something so sacred is something even a fool would know is extraordinary.

The group stared intently and discovered something unusual: within the pure white petals, glistening blood flowed from the crevices, and the immortal radiance was the result of this blood.

The white lotus emitted a captivating aura, and cracks appeared from its edges, spreading into the distance, but the green cauldron trembled and could not break through.

Li Yao waved his hand, and two pieces of green copper flew out, fitting perfectly into the cauldron. These were the green copper pieces he controlled, now back in their rightful place.

"boom!"

The aura emanating from the green cauldron was even more terrifying. There was a crack of light between the two pieces of green copper and the cauldron wall, indicating that it was damaged.

After all, they had been separated for countless years and could not be immediately reunited, but since they came from the same source, the return of the green copper greatly increased the power of this cauldron.

The ripples emanating from the white lotus were compressed and unable to withstand the power of the green cauldron.

"boom!"

Just then, a resounding clang rang out, and the white lotus bloomed, growing larger and larger, breaking through the light curtain emanating from the green cauldron, from which a strange fragrance wafted.

Soon, the white lotus fully bloomed, growing to a size of a thousand feet, revealing its magnificent form. At the same time, a terrifying aura shook the heavens and earth, constantly spreading, and was not much weaker than that of an ancient emperor.

"That is……"

The old madman and the others were dumbfounded and unable to calm down, stunned by what was in the center of the white lotus.

At the center of the white lotus was not a stamen, but a gigantic arm, hundreds of feet long, with its five fingers tightly clenched, holding a stone token that resembled a long sword. Together, they released terrifying divine power.

"Weren't you curious about which part of the Holy Spirit was sealed in this Demon Well? Now it's clear," Li Yao said softly. "And, as an extra bonus, we're also giving you a Supreme Artifact."

"boom!"

The giant hand seemed to possess sentience, sensing the threat. It stood up, holding the stone token, and slashed at the green cauldron. Boundless divine power erupted, as if an ancient emperor had reappeared, displaying divine power that made all living beings worship.

"Having fallen for millions of years, you still dare to act recklessly! Seal it!" Li Yao roared, his unparalleled magical power surging forth as he manipulated the green cauldron to suppress it.

At the same time, a black hole appeared, sucking away all the gods and demons. These were all his resources, so he shouldn't destroy them.

(End of this chapter)