Covering the Sky: A Guide to Proving the Dao Without Cheats

The succession of the Holy Son of Yao Guang may just be an anecdote in the Eastern Wilderness.

However, the change of ownership of the Supreme Imperial Weapon is a major event that truly affects all parties and is enough to reshape the landscape.

The simultaneous occurrence of these two unexpected events placed Luo Heng under the spotlight, placing him at the very center of an undercurrent of tension.

At this moment, he must have attracted scrutinizing, suspicious, and even hostile gazes from the Eastern Wilderness and the other four regions.

"Is the Golden Age... really coming?" The Holy Maiden of Yaochi gazed at the end of the sea of ​​clouds and murmured to herself. The clouds surged and rolled, as if a storm was brewing silently.

It seems I should find some time to formally congratulate the newly appointed Holy Son Luo.

She already had a plan in mind, and her figure appeared increasingly hazy and distant in the misty glow of the sunset. This turmoil, triggered by the change of the Holy Son of Yao Guang, had evolved into a colossal wave sweeping across the Eastern Wilderness due to the ownership of the Devouring Demon Jar.

And Luo Heng, the new saint standing at the forefront of the wave, has undoubtedly become one of the core figures stirring up the winds of the times.

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Despite the turmoil in the outside world, Luo Heng, who was at the center of the storm, remained completely unconcerned.

At this moment, he was sitting alone deep inside a quiet, secluded room in Yaoguang Stone Workshop.

As Luo Heng closed the scroll of "Devouring Heaven Demon Art" in his hand, an indescribable and subtle expression gradually appeared on his face.

"What's going on? The Devouring Heaven Demon Art can't be cultivated into a Chaos Body..." Luo Heng muttered to himself, lost in deep thought. After a moment, a hint of frustration appeared on his face.

"It's all those unreliable netizens and those messy fanfictions' fault," Luo Heng couldn't help but complain softly.

In his previous understanding, the Devouring Heaven Demon Art could cultivate a Chaotic Body, but it was a flawed Chaotic Body. He could then achieve a complete Chaotic Body by using the Undying Heaven Art.

He has made this statement frequently in numerous comments and fan fiction.

However, after he actually got his hands on the "Devouring Heaven Demon Art" and studied it carefully, he was shocked to find that the truth was not so.

The Devouring Heaven Demon Art can only cultivate a demonic body. If this demonic body were to be given a name, it could be called the Devouring Heaven Demonic Body.

This also corresponds to the Ruthless Great Emperor's real name - the Devouring Heaven Great Emperor. "Ruthless Great Emperor" is just a respectful title given to her by the world.

Luo Heng recalled the original work and realized what was going on. In the original text of "Covering the Sky", the evaluation of Ruthless Man's first incarnation's Dao Fruit was always "Demon Body", and the second incarnation was "Divine Embryo". The term "Acquired Chaotic Body" never appeared.

The only thing that comes close is the incomplete chaotic body that the Holy Son of Yaoguang later achieved.

The key point is that the Holy Son of Yao Guang also cultivates the "Undying Heavenly Art." His Chaotic Body has flaws; could it be because he hasn't absorbed enough of the original essence of his physique?

Furthermore, if Ruthless Woman's first life was truly a flawed chaotic body, how could she have attained the Great Emperor status with such an incomplete path?

In fact, the most compelling evidence of this matter is currently in Luo Heng's hands: the Devouring Demon Jar.

After all, this supreme imperial weapon was forged from the body of the Ruthless Man in his first life. If the Ruthless Man had truly achieved a Chaotic Body in his first life, even if it was incomplete, the Devouring Demon Jar would definitely possess the characteristics of a Chaotic Body, such as its attacks being imbued with chaotic energy.

However, it is clear that the Devouring Demon Jar does not possess such characteristics.

Could it be that the ruthless person did indeed cultivate a flawed chaotic body in their first life, but took away all the relevant origins when transforming into a divine embryo, causing the magic jar to lose these characteristics?

If it were the old Luo Heng, he might not have known, but now he is absolutely certain—it is impossible.

He only realized after arriving in the world of Shrouding the Heavens that refining his own remains into an ultimate imperial weapon was not as simple as he had thought.

The original story says that the ruthless person got the name "ruthless person" because he forged himself into a weapon.

Luo Heng hadn't thought much of it when he was reading books before, but when he came to the Beidou cultivation world, he realized that it wasn't like that at all.

This behavior may indeed be shocking to ordinary people, but it is commonplace in the cultivation world.

It's like telling an ordinary person that you're going to make soup from human bones; they'd definitely think you're a pervert. But if you tell an orthopedic surgeon that, they'll at most ask, "How long do you want to simmer it?"

The same thing can be perceived very differently by different people.

Just like in the original story, Ye Fan encountered an old man who forged his own spine into a sword. By that standard, wouldn't that old man also be considered a ruthless person?

The real reason why the Ruthless Great Emperor was able to earn the name "Ruthless" by refining her remains into an imperial weapon is that she did not only refine her physical body, but also fused all her cultivation and Dao fruits from her previous life into it.

If any emperor could forge imperial weapons with their bodies, given their rapid physical recovery, wouldn't it be easy for them to gather hundreds of ultimate weapons by simply cutting off a hand today and a leg tomorrow?

Obviously, this is impossible.

This is why, among all the celestial beings, ancient emperors, and great emperors throughout history, only three people have truly forged imperial weapons from their own remains.

The ruthless ones need no further explanation. Next is the Azure Emperor's Chaos Lotus—it should be noted that the Chaos Lotus's true form is transformed from the corpse of an Immortal King. If it were to truly become fully spiritual, it would start as a True Immortal, or even possibly at the Quasi-Immortal King level.

However, judging from the Azure Emperor's performance, it can be seen that he only separated his consciousness, taking away at most a small amount of his original essence. The remaining divine power of the Chaos Azure Lotus body is still maintained at the level of the elixir of immortality.

That is why he was able to refine it into an ultimate imperial weapon.

Finally, there is the Ancient Emperor of the Divine Silkworm.

His situation was the most special. Every metamorphosis of the Divine Silkworm Clan was a matter of life and death, the process was extraordinary, and each metamorphosis was almost like a complete change of species, which could also be regarded as a complete rebirth by severing the Dao Fruit of the previous body.

Even so, he had to collect all the remains left from his nine transformations before finally forging an ultimate imperial weapon.

The experiences of these three individuals all attest to the immense difficulty of forging imperial weapons from one's own remains.

It's like you can't empty your wallet and then use an empty wallet to pay for something.

To refine one's own remains into an ultimate imperial weapon, one must leave behind enough ultimate laws and primordial divine energy within the body.

These facts also indirectly confirm that the first incarnation of the ruthless person was not a chaotic being.

Luo Heng realized that he couldn't blindly believe what the books, fanfiction, and netizens said. Moreover, although he knew a lot about the hidden plot developments and the general direction, he was actually less familiar with many details than these natives of the novel.

At that moment, he picked up a communication jade talisman and instructed the old man in black to bring all the information he had related to the ruthless man.

Then, he turned his attention to another cultivation technique—the Undying Heavenly Technique.