Chapter 667: The Box Left by the Ancient Luohe

The starry sky, divine mountain, great tree, and altars began to emit a faint light.

A huge bronze altar appeared before Zhao Xing's eyes, situated on four mountain pillars, with the remains of a human floating in the altar.

The remains were only a skull, with the rest being fragments, yet they still emitted powerful pressure, with secret patterns flowing on the bones; clearly, he was a powerhouse while alive.

During the Void Ancestor era, wars between humans and the ten thousand races occurred frequently, and after human powerhouses died, ceremonies would be held to resurrect them.

At this time, dozens of tall figures were chanting on the altar, constantly throwing heavenly materials and earthly treasures into the bronze cauldron that was burning red.

The volcanic crater burned out huge amounts of smoke that shrouded the remains.

Zhao Xing followed in the sacrificial team; at this time, he was just a priest in the back row, not the leader.

As the ceremony progressed, suddenly the skinny old man at the very front turned around to speak to the priests in the back row.

"Open the Gate of the Living."

"Yes, open the Gate of the Living!"

"Open the Gate of the Living!"

Boom, the bronze gate opened, and a halo of light emanated from it, connecting different small worlds and human gathering places everywhere.

Teams of people wearing grass skirts and half-naked walked out, pulled along.

One by one, they jumped into the bronze cauldron above the fire sea, turning into pure energy, and the light of the remains floating above became brighter and brighter.

The sacrificial team continued to chant, and it became more and more urgent.

Zhao Xing looked back; the long dragon formed by the nine gates was almost endless.

"This is the most primitive way of sacrifice." Ming Li's voice sounded in Zhao Xing's mind. "Using the living to exchange for the life of the dead."

Zhao Xing was a bit shocked; the number of people walking out of the nine gates was more than millions, and they all sacrificed themselves willingly?

"Look carefully at the Bronze Dao Cauldron."

Ming Li reminded him, and Zhao Xing immediately focused his attention on the great cauldron.

Then he discovered that the energy turned into by the living beings followed the bronze patterns and poured into the remains.

"Using the Yin-Yang Qi contained in living beings to trigger the Great Dao of space-time and life to resurrect the dead."

Zhao Xing did not find it hard to understand, because this method of resurrection was too crude compared to the techniques of later generations; the only thing worth observing was the essence of resurrection, which was the operation of the Great Dao Origin.

Countless weak individuals also had origins, but they were unique individuals; how to convert them to become the parts needed to resurrect the dead was the point.

This scene did not last long, because Zhao Xing could soon comprehend the essence.

But the next sacrifice began immediately.

Sacrifice after sacrifice, resurrection after resurrection.

Zhao Xing also often heard the conversation between Ming Li and the skinny old man.

"Chuzai, can we use the living beings of alien races and evil spirits as sacrifices?"

"No. The spirits of alien races are chaotic and ignorant; they are not of the same origin, and the Dao cannot become a technique."

"All things have the same origin; their spirits are also transformed by Yin and Yang. Can they not be changed? I want to try."

"Ming Li, this is heresy!"

However, the Chuzai's reprimand did not stop Ming Li's thoughts; he often looked at the altar and pondered, and became increasingly proficient in the Dao of Sacrifice.

Ming Li gradually moved from the last row of priests to the second row.

Before another sacrifice, the Great Chuzai ordered the Gate of the Living to be opened.

The bronze gate opened, but what walked out were not humans, but monsters, which were driven to jump into the fire sea.

"Ming Li, what are you doing?"

"Chuzai, please let me preside."

"You."

The young Ming Li prostrated on the ground, his posture humble, but 80% of the priests followed him in prostration, not listening to the Great Chuzai's orders.

The Great Chuzai lost control of the sacrificial ceremony for the first time.

He walked down from the divine altar.

Ming Li walked up to the divine altar and presided over the ceremony.

The resurrection ceremony began. This time, the level of resurrection was not high, but it took longer.

The conversion of the Five Elements Origin on the bronze cauldron became more complex. Zhao Xing could discover that Ming Li's spellcasting was more exquisite, and his control over various origins was deeper than the Chuzai's.

All origins began to condense under the multiple effects of space-time, causality, and the Great Dao of Life.

After a long time, Ming Li resurrected the corpse on the altar.

"This general is probably only at the Demigod level, but this is the first time a resurrection has succeeded without sacrificing one's own kind." Zhao Xing had an epiphany.

Since then, Ming Li became the Great Chuzai, completely mastering the sacrificial ceremony.

Stars shifted and time passed; the Void Ancestor became stronger and stronger, and the human race became more and more prosperous.

Ming Li also had many "firsts".

The first time he resurrected a God Soldier level without sacrificing his own kind, Ming Li became the first God of Sacrifice.

The first time he resurrected a God General level, the first time he resurrected different life species, the first time he abolished primate sacrifice————

The level of the altar became higher and higher, and the various Great Dao origins involved became more and more advanced.

The branches of the Great Dao became more and more numerous, no longer just resurrecting humans, but also existing similar to rock life.

"Different life forms represent different kinds of Dao."

"Emperor Li is already at the God King realm at this time; the branches of the Great Dao Origin he guides during resurrection have reached over a thousand types."

The more Zhao Xing watched, the more profound he felt it was; the changes in the Great Dao Origin involved in resurrection were all embodied in this small space of the altar.

To resurrect a deceased person, the stronger the target, the more exquisite the application of the world origin and Dao techniques must be.

When Ming Li began to resurrect God Generals, Zhao Xing could already see three thousand Great Daos flickering on the altar.

"Hum~"

One day, there was only one person on the altar, which was Ming Li himself.

The Gate of the Living had also disappeared long ago.

There was nothing on the altar, not even any relics.

On this day, Ming Li resurrected a God King.

And not long after, Zhao Xing saw the seating arrangement of the Divine Court.

Ming Li's position was second only to the Void Ancestor.

After becoming the person second only to the Void Ancestor, Ming Li's demonstrations became increasingly profound.

Finally, the altar appeared in his palm, no longer restricted by the environment.

One day, Ming Li came to a strange place.

"Origin Divine Palace? No, it's the Void Ancestor Star System."

Zhao Xing was startled, then reacted; the Void Ancestor had already disappeared.

And this time, Ming Li came to the Void Ancestor Star System, attempting to resurrect the Void Ancestor.

"Hum~"

The scene ended, and Zhao Xing returned to the initial scene, the starry divine mountain, the divine tree altar.

"Senior, were you trying to resurrect the Void Ancestor in the end?" Zhao Xing could not help but ask.

"Yes." Ming Li said.

"What was the result?"

"I failed." Ming Li said, "I accidentally summoned the Pole Star, and thus became a God Emperor."

"How much have you comprehended?"

"Only a smattering." Zhao Xing felt a bit ashamed.

"To have a smattering is already rare." Ming Li laughed lightly. "You can still watch two more times."

"Thank you, Senior."

Zhao Xing no longer thought about other things, focusing on his own comprehension.

The realm of Dao Lord was created by Emperor Li.

The Void Ancestor becoming a God Emperor was considered a realm unreachable by human power. Before Ming Li, the God King realm was the limit, and there was no concept of a Dao Lord.

Ming Li constantly resurrected powerhouses, and finally, during the sacrifice, he accidentally imprinted his divine power into the Great Dao Origin.

Since then, Ming Li could resurrect God Kings, and his own realm exceeded all God Kings; the realms of Dao Lord and Sacrificial Dao Tool were thus born.

The entire process of Ming Li from becoming a God to a Dao Lord was demonstrated three times.

The scenes were almost all related to sacrifice and the altar.

After the three demonstrations ended, Ming Li's voice appeared: "It is time for you to go."

"Senior, where will I go?"

The starry divine mountain and the divine tree altar gradually faded, and Zhao Xing returned to the space-time tunnel with a sense of loss.

His soul returned to his body, a moment of trance, as if everything just now was a dream.

However, there were many more techniques on the panel, reminding him that all of this was real.

At this time, there were 【Cloudless Cloud Sword】, 【Heavenly Tribulation Technique】, 【Heart-Thunder Net】, and other divine skills of True Lord Rui Yan on the panel, as well as 【Heart-Spirit Sacrifice】, 【Life Dao Branch】, and other divine skills comprehended from Ming Li here.

However, they were all gray and could not be used, because Zhao Xing did not have the corresponding realm and divine power to support them.

"Where exactly is the Palace Master of the Moon God sending me?" Zhao Xing was a bit confused; he had no one to ask right now. He wanted to ask the Xiaoyao Sword Lord, but this sword had been put into the World Ring and was also sealed.

"Splash~"

At the end of the space-time tunnel was a water curtain, and Zhao Xing suddenly fell into it.

White Burning Epoch, Primordial City, First Pass.

This was the earliest time checkpoint of the human race before the Void Ancestor era.

Further ahead were the Chaotic River Epoch and the Three-Fold Epoch before the birth of the human race.

Ruoxi God General, who was guarding the pass, suddenly opened her eyes in a secret room in 【Primordial City】.

She, Ruoxi God General, was the Physician God who had pretended to attack Zhao Xing at the White Phoenix Pavilion and betrayed the Desolate Domain camp; now she had become a Guarding God General in Primordial City.

"Finally here. I have waited for many years, just to complete today's mission."

Ruoxi God General took a thin book out of her bosom, which was glowing slightly.

She flew rapidly to a place at the Time Barrier, gazing at the River of Time.

"Go!"

Ruoxi God General threw this thin book into the River of Time.

At the same time, at the other end of the Primordial City checkpoint, a woman in a black robe who looked very inconspicuous was also gazing at the River of Time.

She looked like just a small God Soldier, but in reality, she had an identity that no one knew, which was the Seventh Lady of the Shadow Saint Palace.

She watched Ruoxi God General's action of throwing the book and also observed the changes in the entire River of Time.

"So that's it." The Seventh Lady's eyes reflected the River of Time, and the mist of the entire River of Time suddenly had a...

section disperse, and the book turned into a section of the river, merging into the main river.

"A section of the entire River of Time was stolen by the Palace Master of the Moon God, and now he has returned it."

"It seems I don't need to save him, and no one can go to intercept and kill him."

On the vast land, above a snowfield bordering the sea, meteors streaked across.

"Shoo shoo shoo!"

The meteors smashed into the primeval forest with fierce momentum, the powerful shockwave destroying the mountains and forests within a radius of ten thousand miles, and a huge crater appeared on the ground.

"Crack-pop~"

In the burning flames, a figure crawled out staggeringly.

Zhao Xing patted the flames on his body, his eyelashes covered with a layer of frost.

"Hiss~ So cold, where did this bring me?"

Zhao Xing discovered that it was extremely cold around, and even his divine sense could only scan a range of one hundred thousand miles.

When he first scanned and found no danger, he let the Netherworld clone carry him and started checking the panel coordinates.

【You have entered an unknown time node of the Dao-Manifesting Universe (can be named).】

"Unknown time point?" Zhao Xing was startled.

Generally, only independent space-time territories would not display coordinates, but here it showed that it was in the Dao-Manifesting Universe.

Then he was not in an independent space-time, but at a node in the history of the entire universe.

"Escape!"

Zhao Xing escaped into the ground, trying to judge the time point by the Earth-Vein era.

About an hour later, he floated up, a bit dazed.

"I have already passed the White Burning Epoch, and possibly passed the Chaotic River Epoch and the Three-Fold Epoch."

"Was I exiled to a place where no one lives?"

Before the White Burning Epoch, in this period, the human race had not even been born!

"That is to say, it is impossible for me to see the existence of humans."

"Unless someone passed the checkpoint of the Five Emperors era and went to an earlier time point, passing by this time node."

Zhao Xing tried to jump out of the River of Time, but found that he could not jump out at all; the River of Time seemed to be frozen solid.

The extreme cold affected the Space-Time Dao, making it impossible to jump out.

"That is to say, I cannot travel through the River of Time?" Zhao Xing's face changed, "If I live here forever, perhaps I can wait for the birth of the human race and the arrival of the Void Ancestor era."

"But this is simply impossible. Between every era of the Dao-Manifesting Universe, great destruction events occur, causing mass extinction of life."

The reason why a period of time is given a new era name is because a great extinction event occurred; that violent disaster was enough to destroy everything, allowing the entire universe to give birth to a new set of ecology, evolving new life and races.

Even the origins changed accordingly, and the cultivation system of the previous era might not even exist anymore.

Relying on hard living to reach the Five Emperors era, or even living back to the Desolate Domain era, the possibility was minimal.

"I hope that at this time point, there are still races and civilizations that understand cultivation and have established space-time gates." Zhao Xing could only pin his hopes on this.

"Before the Five Emperors era, it was a time point ruled by Demon Gods and dark life; there was no lack of high-level life races in the Primordial Continent."

"For example, the Abyss; this is also a way of passage. Hiss————"

Zhao Xing was suddenly frozen by a biting cold wind and shivered.

"So cold, my divine body is at the peak of the God General level, yet I actually feel cold? What kind of broken place is this?" Zhao Xing felt that the environment here was too harsh.

Even his divine sense leaving his body was hard to scan over a long distance.

"Find a cave to take shelter first."

Zhao Xing looked ahead, where there was a mountain range line.

"Hmm?"

Just after flying for a few seconds, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

"Why is this mountain getting closer and closer?"

"Is the mountain moving? ————Something is wrong!"

Zhao Xing stopped, focused his observation, and three breaths later, he felt terrible.

That was no mountain; it was clearly a super blizzard natural disaster. The entire space had been shattered, so it looked like a black mountain range.

"Damn it, the suppression is so great, and I encountered a destructive natural disaster. I didn't happen to descend at a time node of a universe era transition, did I?" Zhao Xing yelled, immediately controlling the Netherworld clone to carry him and run away.

Flying all the way, endless flying.

Zhao Xing flew for a full thousand years, almost exhausting his divine power, before he escaped the center of the blizzard.

"Unimaginable."

Sensing that the power had weakened, Zhao Xing stopped to rest.

He looked at the blizzard in the distance with lingering fear; it had already reached a degree he could accept.

"What kind of era is this? The Earth-Vein power is incomparably majestic; the entity formed by the earth and ice and snow is even comparable to the sum of the entire Chen Xuan Ling Star Domain and other regions. It is thick, vast, and simply the most incredible existence I have ever seen."

But precisely because of this, Zhao Xing found it hard to absorb Earthly Power, because there was another layer of ice blocking it.

The Earthly Power was completely frozen, a barrier more terrifying than a dead vein.

"This sky is also abnormal."

Zhao Xing looked up at the sky; when far from the storm, it was completely composed of a layer of dark gray cloud Qi.

The thickness of the cloud Qi layer was such that even with the strength of Zhao Xing's Netherworld clone, he could not penetrate it completely, as if it were endless.

Could it be that one needs the strength of a Dao Lord to penetrate it?

This was a terrifying cloud he had never seen before, thick and viscous, simply like a boundary barrier of a world.

"Must find a place to settle down first, something that can allow me to replenish my divine power." Zhao Xing thought to himself.

No matter how vast his divine power was, if he could not replenish it, he would die sooner or later.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh~"

The Netherworld clone continued to carry the main body and fly.

Searching and searching, it was always an endless ice field, and he searched for half an epoch.

Zhao Xing finally felt the ice layer weaken, and the fluctuation of the Earth-Vein became obvious.

"Bang bang bang!"

He constantly drilled into the ground with the Boundary Mountain Peak, drilling through layers of ice, and finally, after an epoch, he saw real soil.

"Ah, woo, oh ho ho————"

Zhao Xing was like a wild man; he finally succeeded in drilling wood for fire, dancing with excitement, tears streaming down his face.

An epoch, he dug for a full 1.2 million years, and finally saw soil before his divine power was exhausted!

Although it was only a piece of land the size of a palm, the black dot in the snow pit was the hope of survival!

——

"Internal World!"

Zhao Xing unfolded his internal world, and at the same time, rooted his plant army into the soil.

"Crack crack crack crack~"

The ice layer shattered rapidly, and more soil layers were exposed.

"I absorb!"

Zhao Xing greedily absorbed the power of the earth, and his internal world was also rapidly replenishing energy.

Five hundred years later, Zhao Xing finally stopped absorbing.

Trapped for so long, this was the first time he felt extremely hungry, and also the first time he felt full.

"Master."

Just then, a branch fell down; this was General Tianji in the plant army speaking.

"What is it?"

"The plant soldiers we sent out have already exceeded five thousand boundary units, but it is still an ice-frozen wasteland, and we have not seen any form of life."

"Understood."

Zhao Xing waved his hand; now his territory had been expanded to a radius of ten thousand miles, and both he and his soldiers had given birth to frost divine power, so survival was no longer a problem.

Now he almost unfolded his internal world and never retracted it, constantly expanding the boundaries, and also frantically propagating the native species of his internal world.

"I don't believe that if I unfold my internal world to the extreme, I still can't find the boundary of this place." Zhao Xing thought to himself.

The detection range of the Heaven-Connecting Divine Eye was limited, the Earth-Vein was too solid and majestic, and the detection distance of the Earth-Communication Technique also had a limit.

However, the internal world of the True Self School could help Zhao Xing improve his observable range.

As long as his internal world unfolded and kept expanding, the plants living at the boundary of the territory were his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.

"In an extreme environment, neither Heavenly Time nor Earthly Advantage can be controlled; only the Dao of the True Self can save me." Zhao Xing spat out a breath of cold air.

If he were a pure Heavenly Time Si Nong or an Earthly Advantage Si Nong, he would probably be dead by now.

Even if he could escape the destructive natural disaster, he would die because he could not get replenishment.

But a True Self Si Nong could survive; just in terms of survival ability, the True Self School would always be superior to the other two schools.

"However, even if I can survive, if I don't see other life races for a long time, I'm afraid it will be hard to escape death."

Zhao Xing felt a bit worried in his heart.

Now that one and a half epochs had passed, that blizzard still showed no signs of subsiding, but instead became more intense.

If this continued, his existing survival territory would be squeezed, and he would have to continue migrating.

"Cook, I can't take it anymore." In the sky, a sun with faint light suddenly spoke, "It's too cold, I can't hold on."

"Lord Nian Beast, don't go down the mountain, bear with it a little longer."

"Alright."

Not long after, the Nian Beast fell off work, turned into its beast form, and returned to Zhao Xing's side.

"Cook, my Dao form can only allow your Heavenly Time divine power to re-cultivate to the God realm, at most the same level as me."

"..."

"It's impossible for you to rely on me to break through to God King." The Nian Beast said.

"I know." Zhao Xing nodded. Now, with the help of the Nian Beast, he had re-cultivated Heavenly Time divine power.

But he could only reach the God General level, not even as good as before he was crippled.

"Has the Nine Nether Dao Palace been unsealed?" Zhao Xing asked.

"No, the space-time Dao of this era seems not to allow the Nine Nether Dao Palace to appear." The Nian Beast had a bitter face; he spat out a rice bowl, and at this time the rice bowl had also lost its luster.

"Even the Treasure-Gathering Basin bestowed by Emperor Luo is useless."

"It's fortunate that you let Du Yun out before, otherwise I don't know how long Du Yun would have been locked up."

"Cook, do you think we will die here?" The Nian Beast leaned close to Zhao Xing; he felt warmer this way.

"We won't." Zhao Xing comforted him, looking at the Time Divine Tree in the distance.

"We will definitely be able to kill our way back!"

Time passed, and Zhao Xing and the Nian Beast spent the third epoch in this era.

Because he could not sense the Netherworld Mountain, the power of his Netherworld Straw Man was also limited; he could only rely on the techniques of the True Self School to expand his territory, only able to disintegrate the ice layer bit by bit and nibble away at it.

"The power of life is very amazing. After the third epoch, my territory already has the size of the Beihe Star System."

"There are over billions of derivative species, but most of them are frost-series plants, and the types are relatively single." Zhao Xing thought to himself. "Only the areas where the Nian Beast turns into a Pole Star phantom can grow other types of plants."

The world today already had vibrant life, and towering trees were not uncommon.

Because the ice field had melted, a new ocean even appeared in the territory.

"My internal world has already expanded to the limit." Zhao Xing's figure teleported to the boundary of his internal world.

Looking into the distance at the area shrouded in the blizzard.

"But in any direction, it is still an ice field. If this sky and earth is the appearance of a certain generation in the Dao-Manifesting Universe era, then with the size of my internal world now, it is not enough to explore it completely."

The internal world opened up by the Origin-Opening Divine Stone had already exceeded ten thousand boundary units, which was already very terrifying.

But now Zhao Xing had unfolded less than half of it here, because the expansion of the internal world would suffer the impact of natural disasters, the boundary wall could not withstand it, and it could not continue to expand, so he could not explore a way out.

"Swish swish~"

Just then, Flower Li God General appeared beside Zhao Xing.

"Flower Li God General, how is Little Ai evolving?"

"Very slowly." Flower Li God General shook his head, "The space-time power is almost frozen; Little Ai has only grown one new leaf in three epochs."

"Counting on Little Ai reaching the peak and growing to the Dao Lord level to take us away is also impossible." Zhao Xing sighed.

"Now my internal world has expanded to the limit, and I cannot cross the destructive disaster area to explore."

All methods seemed to have been exhausted, Heavenly Time divine power still could not break through, and the techniques learned from possession still could not change the situation, because there was no God King-level Heavenly Time divine power to support it.

The techniques of the Earthly Advantage School had also reached the current limit, and the Netherworld Mountain did not exist in this era.

"Zhao Xing, this doesn't look like a True Self Si Nong." Flower Li God General laughed. "In the eyes of a True Self Si Nong, there is never a dead end."

"You cultivate the Mixed Origin Boundary; your internal world has indeed reached the limit, but it doesn't mean the limit of the internal world is just like this."

"If only you knew the Eternal Boundary." Flower Li God General said regretfully.

"Eternal Boundary?" Zhao Xing's eyes narrowed.

When he was at the Demigod stage, about to travel through space-time to seek the opportunity to become a God, Ancient Luohe had asked him if he wanted to cultivate the Eternal Boundary, and Zhao Xing had refused.

Later, when he went to say goodbye, Ancient Luohe had already gone into seclusion, only entrusting Five Poisons to leave him a box.

He asked Five Poisons what this was, but Five Poisons only said that when the time came, he would naturally open it.

Zhao Xing's heart moved, and the box immediately flew out from a courtyard on the boundless continent of his internal world.

A silver metal box, about the size of a normal person's head, with patterns flashing on it, a bit like the texture of leaves.

After Zhao Xing stroked it with his palm, the box immediately emitted light.

"Crack crack crack~"

The mechanical array sounded lightly, and the silver metal box changed its form, blooming like a flower bud.

The silver metal box spread out, forming a metal plate covered with stars and misty fog, with space-time power permeating, seemingly triggering space-time distortion.

Three words appeared in the mist on the metal plate: Eternal Boundary.

Zhao Xing was stunned; he recalled the content of the illusion on the Ten Thousand Mountains, where he was in his old home in Great Zhou, living with Zhao Ruide and Zhao Zheng.

Ancient Luohe came to visit and said a paragraph: "Zhao Xing, I am going to die."

"Time will not be too long, and after I die, the Great Emperor will inevitably be affected, and the Origin Realm will also cease to exist."

"But I will still leave some things behind."

"Perhaps the Eternal Boundary plan is really a mistake; I have exhausted my life's efforts, and I can only verify the first hypothesis————"

"If possible, I hope you continue."

Zhao Xing looked blankly at this metal plate.

"Ancient Luohe left the cultivation method of the Eternal Boundary to me so early?"

"Is this his second hypothesis?"

He turned his gaze to the glowing white light ball that appeared after the box was opened.

Zhao Xing could not help but reach out and grasp it, as if he had grasped a world.

Although he had never seen it before, he naturally understood what this was.

"Origin Divine Stone————" Zhao Xing muttered to himself.