Infinite transcendence began with Covering the Sky.

Chapter 316 The Great Dao Within the Formation
Large, black mountains stand side by side in the sacred cliff, giving the place an eerie yet chilling atmosphere that makes one feel uneasy even upon approaching them.

Qi Zhe led the stone horse slowly into the room under the watchful eyes of the onlookers. Some of the sages behind him looked fearful and dared not go forward to investigate.

Nowadays, Qi Zhe's every move is being watched by many people. Some people use various means to spy on him from afar, but this is completely cut off once he enters the Sacred Cliff.

"Did he really go in? Is he going to take the Nine Secrets?"

The Sacred Cliff contains nine secrets, which are known to many powerful forces in the Eastern Wilderness, but no one has ever been heard of retrieving them. Only Ye Fan and his group have managed to do so.

All of this is because this path is very difficult; few people can easily traverse it, even those wielding imperial weapons cannot, as they find it difficult to pass through the Imperial Formation of the Great Emperor Wushi.

Now that Qi Zhe has gone deep into it, it's hard not to let one's imagination run wild.

However, Qi Zhe did not come for the Nine Secrets after all. He just wanted to find a quiet place to cultivate in seclusion, even if it meant being with the Supreme One.

"rustle."

The shadows of trees overlapped on the fifty-odd peaks of the Sacred Cliff, with swaying branches everywhere, and eerie sounds echoed throughout the mountains.

"Awooo!" Then, a strange howl echoed through the mountains, shrill and eerie. When Qi Zhe looked over, he saw a lone wolf flash by.

The old wolf was the size of a calf, but it only had three legs, and almost all of its fur had fallen out. Its wolf eyes were extremely dark and deep.

It flashed before Qi Zhe's eyes and disappeared into the mountains in an instant.

Upon seeing this, Shi Ma became very excited and said with surprise and doubt, "Something is not right. That is not a wolf. It seems to be a wisp of evil energy!"

Qi Zhe nodded upon hearing this and whispered, "It's the malevolent energy of the suppressed one. He's trapped here, almost becoming one with the Sacred Cliff."

Qi Zhe knew very well that the Immortal Daoist's eyes and ears were everywhere in the Sacred Cliff, and even the crows outside the Sacred Cliff were his transformations.

This old wolf was the same; although it possessed malevolent energy, it had developed its own sentience, like another kind of being, which might be related to the origins of the Immortal Taoist.

His subsequent encounters confirmed this, as Qi Zhe saw an old, white-haired rabbit, a weasel, and other creatures that were all incredibly strange.

Although dangerous, the Holy Cliff was not entirely a dead end. Along the way, Qi Zhe saw many spiritual herbs, although they were very young and unevenly distributed.

Qi Zhe casually plucked a spiritual herb and, after a brief examination, determined that it came from inside the Sacred Cliff, transformed from a seed carried by the wind.

“Although this place is dangerous, it has been visited by other people, probably cultivators who gather herbs. I suppose they haven’t reached the center of the Sacred Cliff yet,” Shi Ma analyzed.

It then led the way into the interior of the sacred cliff, where a valley lay between two black peaks, filled with groves of trees and somewhat gloomy.

"Cuck!"

But as the stone horse approached, a strange bird suddenly swooped out of the forest, followed by a humanoid creature covered in black fur that growled.

"laugh!"

At this moment, Qi Zhe did not hesitate. His eyes flashed with astonishing light, and he annihilated his opponent with a single strike that spanned over a hundred feet, causing a large amount of hair to flutter in the air.

Shi Ma was startled. He was about to make a move when he saw his opponent being killed. He couldn't help but exclaim, "I thought you were so strong!"

As it spoke, it pulled out a large amount of fur in front of its body, preparing to let Qi Zhe see what kind of strange being it was.

However, Qi Zhe ignored him and continued to stare at the valley with a frown, because there were several figures standing side by side in the woods.

"Is that all you've got? A few accomplices can't stop me!"

At that moment, Qi Zhe inexplicably spoke up, and then rushed into the forest. A few breaths later, he walked out carrying several stiff ancient corpses.

“Continue, it has no other means.” Qi Zhe then looked back at the dark forest behind him, and without hesitation, led the stone horse into it, slowly walking through the forest.

The forest was not large, and apart from the unusually tall trees, there was nothing particularly remarkable about it, but there were still some white bones lying among them.

This is not the only place to enter the Sacred Cliff. There are various entrances among these fifty-odd mountains, and each one has a different experience.

They didn't linger long before passing through the dark woods and entering the depths of the sacred cliff, where there wasn't even much weed in sight.

The ground here has begun to be covered with Dao patterns, and if you open your Heavenly Eye slightly, you can see countless silver snakes dancing wildly on the earth.

These are all imperial runes left by the Great Emperor Wushi. Their power increases exponentially with the depth of the runes, and even quasi-emperors find it difficult to reach their deepest point.

"The Emperor didn't go too far. As long as we don't go deeper, we still have a chance to escape if we stay on the outskirts," Qi Zhe said in a low voice.

Emperor Wushi set up the Imperial Array, but he knew that future generations would set foot on it, so he did not leave any earth-shattering killing power on the outer perimeter. Even the big black dog could withstand it back then.

The old Taoist priest Chilong went deep into the Sacred Cliff for 1,500 years. Although he was nearly killed by the refining process, he still came out alive, which is enough to show that Emperor Wushi did not go too far.

"Let's go, my goal lies deeper within."

After observing for a while, Qi Zhe began to try to enter the area, leading the stone horse to avoid the places densely covered with Dao patterns, but lightning still occasionally struck down.

Fortunately, Qi Zhe was highly skilled and could ignore ordinary lightning. Before long, he climbed up a black mountain.

Shi Ma followed Qi Zhe up to Dayue. As far as the eye could see, there was a vast expanse of black mountains, and in the distance, a mountain had been broken in half.

"What is that?" Stone Horse asked in surprise. It had felt very comfortable ever since it entered this black mountain range, and felt a strange energy influencing it.

But the broken black mountain before it made it feel uneasy, and a sense of incompleteness arose in its heart, just as it had been born prematurely.

Upon hearing this, Qi Zhe gazed into the distance, knowing that it must be the place where the Immortal Daoist was suppressed, but it was no longer there.

However, not far from that broken mountain, there is a high mountain covered in bloodstains, and the remaining aura on it is incredibly powerful, as if a supreme being once lingered there.

That is the place where the Holy Body once shed its blood, located at the very center of the Holy Cliff, where that person once attained enlightenment and cultivated.

Without hesitation, Qi Zhe led the stone horse toward the blood-stained mountain, intending to go there and begin his secluded cultivation.

However, the dense array of the Black Mountain range blocked his way. It could be said that even he could not go very far and had to comprehend it in order to move forward.

Qi Zhe traversed eleven mountains, braving the lightning as he charged in, until the lightning could finally harm him.

At this point, even the stone horse dared not wander off. Any lightning bolt here was as powerful as a Great Sage's strike, and even it couldn't withstand it.

"The Great Emperor Wushi is truly awe-inspiring." Shi Ma looked at Qi Zhe sitting cross-legged on the ground, frowning and deep in thought, knowing that even someone as gifted as Qi Zhe would find it difficult to advance further.

This mountain range had been strange ever since they entered, but none of them had stopped Qi Zhe for long. Only this imperial formation had stumped Qi Zhe.

“Indeed, I may need some time.” Qi Zhe’s eyes shone with divine light as he stared at the endless Dao patterns on the ground with an inscrutable expression.

Although he could not continue forward, this imperial formation was a good place. If he could comprehend even a little bit of it, even he could make great progress in his cultivation.

You must know that there is no other imperial formation in the world that can allow cultivators to step into it at will. Qi Zhe would not dare to act recklessly in any other imperial formation.

He even felt that if he could fully comprehend this imperial formation, it would be no less valuable than reading half of the Wushi Sutra.

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