Covering the Sky: I, a mortal, ascended to the throne step by step.

Chapter 101 Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Stone-Cast Taoist Temple

Li Xian's eyes swept over it, and the demonic shadow moved stiffly, without breathing, without a heartbeat, and without even a fluctuation of divine sense.

This feeling is so familiar—it's the Divine Transcendence Technique; someone is controlling it from behind the scenes.

The Ruthless lineage can control corpses in battle. This is an alternative application of the Divine Transcendence Technique. After some powerful individuals fall, their divine consciousness is not completely dissipated. They use the Divine Transcendence Technique to occupy the remaining thoughts and control the corpses as "living dead".

Li Xian squinted; he had a similar experience in the Heavenly Demon Palace.

The bodies before us were not low-level cultivators in life, but after death they were enslaved by the Divine Transformation Technique, and their combat power plummeted, probably to between the Fourth Extreme and Dragon Transformation levels.

Judgment complete.

Without hesitation, Li Xian took out the Nirvana Pill and swallowed it directly. The crimson phoenix shadow spread its wings, its injuries healed, its bones reorganized, and its qi, blood, divine power, and divine consciousness returned to their peak.

Then, the demonic shadow moved, lunging straight at you with a force that was absurdly powerful.

A claw descended, but Li Xian dodged it. The claw slammed into the sand, and with a loud boom, a sand dune a hundred feet in diameter sank, creating a black hole.

Li Xian frowned slightly, fully utilizing the Tianxuan Step technique. The incomplete Douzi Secret Technique roared, distorting space. He nimbly maneuvered within the encirclement of demonic shadows, narrowly escaping being skinned alive each time.

A puppet has no emotions, doesn't get tired, doesn't lose patience, and isn't fooled by feints; this is true paralysis.

Annoying—when forcibly tearing open the encirclement, Li Xian saw what the two corpses were holding.

It was five or six meters long, completely black, pitted and uneven, and exuded a chilling aura that seeped into one's bones.

It doesn't resemble a magical artifact; it looks more like a forcibly broken piece of a weapon, with incomplete patterns on the edges, so blurry that they are almost unrecognizable.

"This is----"

Li Xian was surprised.

Emperor Hengyu killed a being comparable to an emperor here, and the opponent's shattered weapon was scattered throughout this dead zone.

A black metal block.

The cold, damp air.

Potholes and cracks.

They found fragments of the Supreme Being's artifacts and used them as weapons.

The demonic shadow struck, and the jet-black metal crashed into the void, shattering space.

"We can't hide anymore."

Li Xian summoned the Divine Furnace of Departing Fire and crashed into the metal.

"boom!"

The deafening roar shook the Divine Desert. Li Xian's arms went numb, and he slid backward dozens of feet. The fire phoenix totem on the furnace body flickered, and a faint golden light flashed at the point where it touched the black metal.

Imperial power.

The Divine Furnace of Li Huo contains the Dao patterns of the Great Emperor Hengyu.

Emperor Hengyu personally killed that Supreme Being.

When two things meet, they instinctively create conflict.

The puppet, without a second thought, continued its attack methodically.

Li Xian gritted his teeth, and the incomplete "Fighting" character evolved into the Eight Divine Brutal Force, pouring divine power into the Li Huo Divine Furnace.

The furnace body was red-hot; it was smashed out and caught head-on.

"Bang!"

Fire and cold collide.

As the Emperor's runes within the Divine Furnace were activated, the Emperor's Dao remnants within the fragments of the Supreme Remnant Weapon were also activated. Under the scorching heat of the flames, the surface of the black metal was peeled away layer by layer, revealing its deep, heavy essence imbued with ancient Daoist charm.

Nine Great Immortal Golds.

Dragon pattern black gold.

Li Xian recognized her.

Someone hiding their aura within the Divine Desert also recognized it.

"hiss----"

A very faint, almost imperceptible gasp of cold air rose up, barely suppressed, yet filled with joy.

The supreme imperial weapon of the Yao Guang Holy Land is the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron, and the jet-black metal before us is also forged from Dragon Pattern Black Gold.

Upon seeing such a treasure, the person behind the scenes lost their composure.

"It's the Dragon Transformation Realm."

The mastermind, at least one person, is hiding in the sand dunes several miles away.

Li Xian felt a chill run down his spine as he quickly calculated in his mind: The Immortal-Slaying Gourd could kill that person, but the commotion would be too great. If there were multiple people behind it, it would expose his trump card.

The same principle applies to the Heavenly Dragon's City-Breaking Cone.

Not cost-effective.

He made his decision and left decisively, unleashing the Tianxuan Steps, his figure blending into the sand waves.

A moment of silence.

A cultivator emerged from behind the sand dune. He stared in the direction Li Xian had gone, but did not immediately give chase. Instead, he walked toward the puppet that had been knocked away by the Divine Furnace of Departing Fire, reached out his hand, and touched the surface of the black metal with his fingertips. He spoke in a trembling voice: "Black and lustrous, naturally formed dragon patterns."

"Dragon-patterned black gold, it really is dragon-patterned black gold—"

"The weapon fragments scattered throughout the Divine Desert are actually dragon-patterned black gold!"

"What an incredible stroke of luck! This material is the core material for forging the Imperial Cauldron. How much of it is in the entire Holy Land? How much immortal gold can be forged from this piece?"

The black-robed monk took a deep breath, and then he thought of something else.

That divine furnace could directly clash with the fragments of the Supreme Being and even activate the Imperial runes deep within the dragon-patterned black gold to fight back: the origin of that furnace must be extraordinary.

Imperial-level weapon.

Or perhaps, it's just one step away from becoming an imperial weapon.

The black-robed cultivator opened his eyes, looked up to the sky and roared with boundless joy.

"Chase!"

The demonic puppet attacked, giving Li Xian no time to breathe.

He circled around, turned back, and ventured into the forbidden area where the Dao patterns were most dense and even divine sense would be disturbed—but each time he was relentlessly pursued by the demonic shadows and forced into a fierce battle.

The Nirvana Pill is finished.

The ancient divine spring is finished.

He poured the last mouthful of the Jade Pool Divine Spring into his mouth.

His qi and blood were barely maintained, but his divine power was depleted and could not be replenished. He had a blunt force injury on his side, which was penetrated by the cold, yin energy of the demonic shadow.

This is bad, I wonder if Elder Cen has caught up yet—

Li Xian pondered, but didn't forget to be vigilant. Almost instinctively, he listened to the noise, judged the location of the next wave of puppets, and then changed direction, keeping his head down as he walked.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, ahead, sandstorms raged.

Li Xian's ankle hit a hard object.

He lowered his head.

At my feet was a section of stone steps buried in the sand, its edges worn but its outline still clear.

As you ascend the stone steps, sand dunes stretch out one after another, rising slightly in one spot. Their shapes are so regular that they could not possibly have been formed by wind.

Li Xian walked over and raised his hand to brush aside the upper layer of loose sand.

The stone wall is exposed.

It's a Taoist temple!