Chapter 11: Visitors from the Forbidden Zone!

On the Holy Cliff Dao Platform.

Gu Xuan, sitting in meditation to comprehend the Dao, did not move a muscle.

Nearly a hundred years had passed, yet his figure remained straight and tall.

His face showed no increase in wrinkles; on the contrary, his complexion appeared even better than before.

From the outside, he showed not the slightest sign of aging.

However, those with discernment knew this was deliberately done by the Holy Cliff Holy Body.

As the current age's Dacheng Holy Body, he was the only existence capable of deterring the Life Forbidden Zones.

His aging would be an extremely terrifying signal!

In their old age, Holy Bodies often met with ill omens.

Perhaps a Forbidden Zone Supreme was waiting for this very day to arrive!

Over these years, two or three Human Race Great Saints who admired the Dacheng Holy Body had come to visit and were permitted to enter the Holy Cliff.

However, after they emerged, all of them wore grave expressions and kept their mouths shut like sealed bottles.

Only one calmly said a single sentence: "Senior Holy Body's merit participates in creation; it is not something the likes of us can know."

The next day.

There were also Forbidden Zone disciples who came bearing heavy gifts to visit.

"Senior Human Race Holy Body, by my father's command, I specially present two Great Luo Peiyuan Pills!"

This was a young Ancient Race member born with a golden horn on his head.

His horns stood tall and prominent, divine light blazed around his body, his aura soared high, possessing a kind of arrogance that looked down on everything.

He might be the offspring of a certain Supreme!

Dispatched today, only to closely inspect the Dacheng Holy Body's condition.

And the Dacheng Holy Body actually let him inside as well.

Great Luo Peiyuan Pill!

A Quasi-Emperor!

Outside the Holy Cliff, someone witnessed this scene and could not stop exclaiming in shock.

Legend has it that the Great Luo Peiyuan Pill is a supreme-grade pill refined by the Ancient Heavenly Court.

For cultivators below the Quasi-Emperor realm, even if on the verge of death, taking it can bring them back from the brink, and even greatly increase their cultivation.

Even for a Quasi-Emperor, it has a certain life-prolonging effect.

Forbidden Zone disciples actually offered such a heavy treasure as a gift!

"Could it be that there is also an existence in the Forbidden Zones on good terms with the Dacheng Holy Body?"

Someone voiced this doubt.

"Nonsense! This is clearly ill-intentioned!"

"The Great Luo Peiyuan Pill has long been useless to an existence like Senior Holy Body!"

"To act like this now is clearly only to spy and probe."

Someone refuted it on the spot.

The previous person realized his misspoken words and immediately slunk away in embarrassment.

After a long while.

The golden-horned Forbidden Zone disciple withdrew from the Holy Cliff.

He gazed into the distance at several Human Race cultivators, baring his teeth in a smile.

This smile appeared gentle and harmonious, yet these few Human Race members felt a creepy, hair-raising sensation.

This was clearly the feeling of a ferocious beast licking its teeth!

Since the Ancient Era, the Ancient Races have used the Human Race as blood food.

Ancient history records that even Saints and Great Saint-level Human Race experts were treated as food by higher-cultivation Ancient Race members!

Needless to say, that was a segment of Dark Ages too miserable to behold!

Until the middle of the Ancient Era, the Taiyin Human Emperor and the Taiyang Holy Emperor appeared one after another, and the Human Race's fate finally saw some improvement.

Unfortunately, in the several hundred thousand years that followed, almost no Human Race Great Emperor appeared.

This is very normal.

The path to becoming an Emperor is truly a journey strewn with thorns, fraught with hardship and peril.

Its difficulty cannot be fully described in words.

Only those with peerless great wisdom, great courage, great fortune, and great perseverance have even a one-in-ten-thousand possibility!

According to legend.

The Daoyan Great Emperor might have been a Human Race Great Emperor at the end of the Ancient Era.

But unfortunately, the period he suppressed the world could only be considered a fleeting moment.

Apart from the Eternal Star Domain, the fate of the entire Human Race did not change much.

The true change still had to wait until the later Desolate Ancient Era.

The Fuxi Great Emperor, the Nuwa Great Emperor, and afterwards the Ruthless Great Emperor, the Hengyu Great Emperor, the Xi Huang...

And nine generations of Dacheng Holy Bodies battling against the heavens in reverse!

Though they did not become Emperors, they protected the Human Race for nearly a hundred thousand years.

Generation after generation of Human Race Supremes blood-battled the Eight Wastelands, pacifying turmoil.

They clashed with the most ancient and most powerful enemies in the universe.

Every battle was a life-and-death struggle; every victory required paying an unimaginable price.

Finally, the fate of the human race being bullied and oppressed was changed.

At least, they would no longer be wantonly treated as blood food!

……

Busianshan.

A certain burial ground.

Immortal Source treasure light flowed, divine splendor shone, a breath spanning the ages, eternally undying, permeated the air.

"Father, I have not failed my mission."

The Ancient Race Quasi-Emperor with a golden horn on his head knelt on one knee, paying respects toward an incomparably vast Immortal Source.

"Li Yuan, how did it go?"

A voice possessing Supreme Majesty rang out.

The Ancient Race Quasi-Emperor opened his mouth and spat out a Yin Ji, precisely the scene of him paying respects to Gu Xuan.

The Supreme Existence within the Immortal Source fell silent for a long while.

"This person is actually quite resilient."

After a long time, this Supreme sneered a word, his cold words devoid of a shred of emotion.

Subsequently, a stream of Qi mechanism surged out from the Immortal Source, collecting the Yin Ji in mid-air.

……

On the Beidou Star, on the Central Plains Land.

Gu Xuan's Dao Body — Daoist Gu Yi, like a lone wild goose, traversed the Void.

He would sometimes pause, as if sensing something.

And sometimes tear space, a single step crossing dozens of ten thousands of li of desert.

Nearly a hundred years of toil and travel.

He ultimately still had some gains.

Several decades ago, he halted his steps above a mountain range in the Eastern Wasteland.

This mountain range stretched continuously, formed by hundreds of strange peaks standing side by side.

On one of the peaks, ordinary to the point of being utterly ordinary, he perceived an anomaly.

A profound Yin Ji manifested from within the mountain peak.

The Jie Character Secret!

It ultimately let him find it!

Effort does not betray the dedicated heart.

Daoist Gu Yi knew, the Nine Secrets were not all concentrated in the Beidou Star Domain.

A portion of them were in other Star Domains of the Universe.

Currently, what he could do was to find the Nine Secrets that might exist in the Beidou Star.

The Nine Secrets, the Forbidden Secret Techniques created by the Mythical Era Nine Great Heavenly Venerables!

Each Secret represents the ultimate extremity of a certain domain.

The Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors of later generations, on their respective cultivation paths, all without exception referenced these nine great Secret Techniques.

There were also once those who wanted to collect all of the Nine Secrets.

But those who could truly achieve this were few enough to count on one's fingers.

Perhaps the Di Zun of that year achieved it.

The Undying Heavenly Emperor might also have collected a large half.

But not all Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors could achieve it.

The Universe is truly too vast and boundless.

Even an Ancient Emperor invincible under heaven cannot possibly probe every Secret Realm.

Of course, there were also some Ancient Emperors confident that their own Forbidden Secret Techniques were invincible, who did not deliberately expend effort to collect them.

……

Eastern Wasteland.

The Ji Family, where the Hengyu Great Emperor's Dao lineage resides.

"Daoist Gu Yi, coming to pay respects at the mountain."

A concealed Quasi-Emperor Aura manifested.

Before long, from the Ji Family's mysterious Ancient Hall, a Great Sage-level figure came out to welcome.

This was actually the Ji Family's current Family Head personally coming out to welcome.

"Not knowing Senior was visiting, failing to welcome from afar, please forgive the offense, forgive the offense!"

Gu Yi smiled faintly, and together with the Ji Family Head entered the Ji Family Ancestral Hall.

Some Ji Clan disciples were shocked.

The Family Rules within the clan had always been strict; outsiders could not lightly enter the Ancestral Hall.

This Daoist, judging by appearance not old in years, and with a slovenly appearance.

How did he gain such high regard from the Family Head?

Could it be this is also a Great Saint?

Truly one cannot judge a person by appearance; the Ji Clan disciples suppressed their thoughts and continued diligent cultivation.

Before long.

A fluctuation suddenly came from within the Ancestral Hall, as if some struggle had occurred.

But all the Ji clan disciples reacted calmly, not worrying at all that the Family Head might suffer a loss.

The reason was naturally very simple.

Their own Ancestors' Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon — the Hengyu Divine Furnace — was stationed right in their own Ancestral Hall.

In the current world, unless a Great Emperor acted, who could withstand a strike from an Extreme Dao Weapon?

As expected.

The clamor soon quieted down, returning to the usual calm.

A long while later.

Gu Yi Dao Ren had already departed.

In the Ancestral Hall, the Ji Family Head looked at the Yin Ji of the Xing Character Secret in his palm, and amid his wild joy, he could not help but be filled with suspicion.

"Possessing the Dou Character Secret is my Ji Family's Peerless Great Secret."

"How did this Daoist Gu Yi know about it?"

However, the Xing Character Secret in his hand was genuine beyond doubt.

This Transaction could also be said to be a win-win.

Blessings to all Book Friends, Health Peace!

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(Chapter End)