From a Zhengyi Taoist Child to a Master of All Laws

Chapter 637 Crimson Sky Flame Upper Palace

"Grand Preceptor, you are already a supreme Earth Immortal. What scriptures in the world could possibly meet your standards?"

Li Yang asked, trying to get information out of Zhang Hengming. Cultivators usually determine their path when they plant the seed of the Dao. By the time they reach the level of Human Immortal or Earth Immortal, everything is already fixed, and it is almost impossible to change their methods. This is also why Li Yang did not cultivate the Earth Element Food Qi Method when he obtained it at Fangzhang Mountain on Blue Star.

For beings above the Human Immortal level, unless they are truly determined to drop their cultivation level and dissipate their power, no amount of supreme scriptures will be of any use.

"I told you, you have no right to ask questions."

Zhang Hengming snorted coldly and did not answer Li Yang.

"Then how do I go down and retrieve the scriptures I need?"

Li Yang spoke again, now that it was confirmed that something was buried beneath the palace, and he was equally curious.

"Just wait."

Zhang Hengming snorted coldly, stood up from the dragon throne, and then stretched out a pair of large, fleshy palms. His expression changed, and he suddenly pressed down.

"boom!"

A mountain-like force crashed down on the main hall, causing the ancient Dali Imperial Palace, which had stood for an unknown amount of time, to tremble and collapse.

The vermilion dragon-carved beams, the glazed tiles, the large pillars, and the floor tiles all crumbled and fell into a pile of rubble in an instant.

The Emperor of Dali and Bai Yingluo had only walked a few hundred meters out of the main hall when they heard a deafening roar behind them. They mechanically turned around and saw that the symbol of the Dali Dynasty had been reduced to ruins. Their bodies twitched, and they fell straight down, prompting the ministers beside them to shout "Long live the Emperor!"

Amidst the dust, two figures stood proudly. Zhang Hengming waved his robe, and the noisy dust instantly dissipated.

"This palace layout is the 'Vermilion Bird Spirit Locking Array' specially set up by your Bai family's ancestors. If I hadn't accidentally obtained the array diagram, I really wouldn't have been able to see the mystery of this palace layout, and that such scriptures were buried underneath."

Zhang Hengming sneered and continued his attack. His obese body hovered above the Dali Imperial Palace, and with each finger he pointed, a palace collapsed with a crash.

At this moment, the facade of the Dali royal family had become a living hell. Although there were no casualties, the entire palace had been reduced to ruins in an instant.

Beneath the collapsed palace, some glittering golden objects remained, resembling the internal framework of the buildings, though the type of metal was unknown.

"Was the strange feeling I had when I entered the palace that day caused by these strange metals interfering with my senses?"

Li Yang pondered in his heart, quietly observing Zhang Hengming's supernatural abilities.

When the entire palace was in ruins, all the metal frames were revealed.

Zhang Hengming observed for a moment, then pointed again, each time his finger touched a spot where the metal frame shifted its position.

A moment later, from Li Yang's perspective, the skeletons left by these collapsed buildings slowly arranged themselves into the shape of a mythical bird, the Vermilion Bird, about to take flight.

At the eye of the Vermilion Bird, a bronze stele slowly rose.

Zhang Hengming flew straight to the eye of the "Vermilion Bird" and looked at the bronze tablet, which was covered with mottled bronze rust. The moment Zhang Hengming saw the ancient bronze tablet, an uncontrollable excitement flashed in his beady eyes.

This bronze stele must have been embedded in some wall of the Dali Palace for thousands of years, with the stone pieces still attached to it.

Just as Li Yang was guessing Zhang Hengming's next move, his expression froze on his face.

From Li Yang's perspective, Zhang Hengming sinisterly took out a fist-sized ball of blood-red light from his loose Taoist robe and pressed it into the bronze stele.

The moment the crimson orb was taken from Zhang Hengming's hand, Li Yang's breathing quickened. Heaven and earth seemed to sense this, and leaden clouds instantly gathered above the entire Dali Royal Palace.

Li Yang stared at the crimson orb of light in Zhang Hengming's hand, the mournful cries of countless people echoing in his ears.

Slaughter, boundless slaughter!
"It's because there are so many pigs in this Great Li region that I was able to refine this 'Myriad Spirit Blood Orb' within these ten years." Zhang Hengming licked his lips, then looked expectantly at the changes in the bronze stone tablet.

Dozens of seconds after the crimson orb was pressed in, blood-like patterns immediately appeared on the surface of the entire bronze stele, and something seemed to be accumulating energy and brewing.

"Ode!"

A burst of intense red light shot out from the surface of the bronze stele, projecting an illusory portal at its endpoint.

Zhang Hengming sneered and turned to look at Li Yang:

"Only cultivators with the bloodline of the Bai family can enter this portal. I originally planned to take Bai Yingluo as my furnace and refine all of her Bai family bloodline back into myself before opening the portal. I didn't expect you, the Crown Prince of Dali, to suddenly appear, which saved me a lot of trouble."

Li Yang was stunned, and for the first time, he fell into deep thought while touching his chin.

Is it possible that I am not actually Prince Moro?
Hiss, is it really that hard? It doesn't just have Prince Moro's memories, it also has half of his essence blood...

"It should be possible. The Imperial Advisor said he had considered using Bai Yingluo as a furnace to refine her essence blood, so my situation should be similar..."

Li Yang steadied himself and regained his composure.

"Does the Immortal Lord mean that I should enter this portal to obtain the scriptures?"

Zhang Hengming sneered and made way for Li Yang: "I'll only give you three days. If you don't bring the scriptures to me after three days, I will immediately turn around and go to Purgatory Valley to expose your identity and turn your entire Great Li into a living hell."

"Three days later, bring out the scriptures, and the karma between us will be wiped clean. I will immediately flee far away from Dali, and I will keep your affairs a secret forever."

Li Yang felt the unusual movement of the "Ultimate Path Treasure Mirror" and the three streams of Five Thunder Divine Qi within his body. He looked up at the illusory portal with burning eyes.

He sensed that something within the portal was calling to him.

It was as if it had always belonged to him.

"We'll see everything in three days."

Li Yang took a step forward and eagerly stepped into the doorway.

Seeing Li Yang so eager to enter the portal to search for treasure, Zhang Hengming rubbed his ten carrot-like fingers together and just sneered.
"Fool, do you really think I'll let you go just because you retrieved the scriptures for me? The passage you crossed from another realm, the opportunity to cultivate from a mortal to an immortal over ten years, the cultivation resources of the Great Li Earth... how can you discard something of such great value after using it only once?"

Recalling the chilling aura emanating from Bai Muluo ten thousand meters above the ground a stick of incense had burned a moment earlier, Zhang Hengming's expression grew even colder.
"You little bastard, do you think I didn't see you approaching me, ready to attack? A mere mortal immortal with an undeveloped foundation dares to offend a Celestial Lord? If you weren't so useful now, I would have crushed you with a single finger!"

Zhang Hengming said in a sinister tone, then turned around and suddenly shouted in all directions.

"Arrest all members of the Great Li Dynasty's royal family and detain them under guard. Not a single one is to be released!" "As the Immortal Lord commands!"

A clamor of response immediately erupted from around the collapsed Dali Imperial Palace. Then, thousands of soldiers rushed out from the houses and alleys surrounding the palace, surrounding the Dali Emperor, Bai Yingluo, and a group of princes and ministers who had not yet escaped far.

"Zhang Hengming, you promised Moro you wouldn't make things difficult for us!"

Bai Yingluo's expression changed drastically. She stood in front of the Dao soldier's spear and angrily rebuked Zhang Hengming in the sky.

"How dare some ants accept the promise of a celestial lord?"

The leading Taoist soldier sneered, drew his sword and slashed down the palace above the head of the Emperor of Dali. The emperor sat on the ground with disheveled hair, his face turning a purplish-red, but he dared not utter a word.

Bai Yingluo still wanted to resist, and snatched a Dao soldier's spear. She had just defeated four or five Dao soldiers when a Dao soldier with the cultivation of the Seed Dao cut her with a sword, causing her to vomit blood and fall to the ground, where she was tied up.

"Hmph, if it weren't for the need to borrow the orthodox dragon fortune of your Great Li royal family to tame the believers and refine the 'Myriad Spirits Blood Orb,' plus the requirement of your Bai family's bloodline to enter the treasure land, would you, a mere mortal, be worthy of sitting on equal footing with me?"

Zhang Hengming sneered, and with a wave of his hand, the Emperor of Dali, who was bound like a dumpling, along with Bai Yingluo, princes, ministers, and members of the royal family, were escorted to a cleared area in the ruins of the palace.

The Great Li Dynasty was nominally a vassal state of Purgatory Valley. Although Purgatory Valley looked down on them, Zhang Hengming did not dare to actually slaughter these people, otherwise it would be a slap in the face to Purgatory Valley.

"I can't kill him, just imprison him temporarily. Once that little bastard is out, I can retire from the limelight."

A hint of apprehension flashed in Zhang Hengming's eyes. He knew just how astonishing the scripture beneath the palace was; it was the very fortune those old fogies of the Nine Sects had been desperately seeking.

If it weren't for that, he wouldn't have needed to lie low for ten years.

"The cultivation method I used to practice was too simple and crude, and I would never be able to attain the rank of Celestial Immortal in my lifetime. Since the Nine Sects will not give me the cultivation method, then let me take it myself!"

Zhang Hengming's beady eyes were filled with coldness. He then sat cross-legged in front of the illusory portal, intending to guard it personally.
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Li Yang is very flustered, extremely flustered.

Zhang Hengming lied to him, or perhaps Zhang Hengming himself didn't know.

To enter this cave, one must possess the bloodline of the Bai family; refining essence blood is strictly prohibited.

As far as Li Yang could see, there was a sea of ​​fire composed of countless divine flames. Various divine flames were like flowing magma, and above the magma, a hundred-meter-long crimson Vermilion Bird, whose entire body was made of flames, was staring intently at him.

"Bloodline and life soul tests failed! External cultivators have invaded! Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Before Li Yang could react, the crimson Vermilion Bird suddenly swooped down towards him, startling Li Yang so much that he instinctively drew his Southern Sea Sword, unleashing a powerful strike as if he and the sword were one.

The crimson Vermilion Bird gave Li Yang a truly terrifying feeling, comparable to an extreme immortal, forcing Li Yang to be on his guard.

Unexpectedly, the brilliant white sword light collided with the blazing Vermilion Bird, but it seemed as if it had not made contact with anything, and the sword light passed directly through nothing.

Li Yang had no idea what the Southern Sea Sword had struck. Just as he was wondering what it was, the hundred-meter-long crimson Vermilion Bird suddenly let out an extremely shrill cry and turned into countless points of light.

"Playing me?"

"Touch porcelain?"

Alarm bells rang in Li Yang's mind. Just as he sensed something was amiss and was operating the Extreme Dao Treasure Mirror at full speed, a sudden and dramatic change occurred in the entire space as the Vermilion Bird illusion vanished.

Like the receding tide, the boiling, surging magma quickly disappeared, gradually revealing what lay beneath it.

As the lava receded, the things below gradually became apparent, revealing a magnificent and ornate palace that looked entirely like crimson glass!

"Is it a paradise like Shangri-La?"

"What was that Vermilion Bird illusion just now? That overwhelming killing intent was definitely not faked!"

"Could it be that at the last moment, Bai Moro's essence blood took effect, causing Zhuque to abandon the idea of ​​eliminating me?"

After pondering for a long time, hovering above the crimson palace and confirming that there was no danger below, Li Yang finally descended gracefully.

This is a palace comparable to a work of art, entirely made of red glass and crystal, with the five large red characters "Chixiao Yanshangque" prominently engraved on the plaque above.

This is a very ancient script, even in the Realm of Ultimate Truth. If Li Yang hadn't spent the last four months reading through the Great Li Library, he might not have been able to recognize it.

He cautiously stepped into the palace, but the scene inside made Li Yang's eyes widen in surprise.

It wasn't particularly breathtaking or spectacular; rather, it was just too dilapidated...

The alchemy furnace, the desk, the pillars, the giant cauldron... everything in sight was lying messily on the ground, and all of them had a large hole in them or were broken in the middle.

Li Yang touched each item one by one, and with each one he touched, he gasped in shock.

The materials and specifications of these items would make each one a treasured possession of the Dao Alliance on Blue Star!
What made Li Yang even more excited was that he could clearly smell an unusual medicinal fragrance in the alchemy furnace and the giant cauldron, but both the furnace and the cauldron had a large hole in them, and the contents inside had long since disappeared!

In the very center of the main hall was a jade disc, entirely blood red, with dragons and phoenixes flying across it, and what appeared to be writing.

Li Yang stepped forward to read it, translating it word by word. Looking at the dilapidated scene around him, he was so shocked that he was speechless.

Li Yang's guess was correct; this "Crimson Sky Flame Palace" was indeed a treasure trove left by the Bai family's ancestors for their descendants!

According to the inscription on the jade disc, thousands of years ago, the Bai family had a retainer known as the Immortal Venerable Zhurong, whose strength was also unfathomable. Later, the Immortal Venerable Zhurong perished in an earth-shattering battle, and the Bai family's ancestor also perished as a result.

However, the descendants of the Bai family escaped with a scripture entrusted to them by their ancestors. They fled all the way to the "Lie" dynasty and built the "Chixiao Yanshangque" to preserve the scripture and store treasures.

Li Yang had no idea how such a powerful immortal cultivation clan had evolved into the current royal family of Dali. His gaze followed the jade disc and went directly to the back.

Those were the scriptures that the Bai family ancestors brought out from that great battle.

It's less like scripture and more like a mural.
However, the central part of the mural is blurred, with faint sword marks, which have completely destroyed the central part of the mural and cannot be restored.

After a moment's thought, Li Yang unleashed the full power of his Southern Sea Sword in a single strike.

——Qiang!

Li Yang's hand went numb, and the Nanming Sword trembled incessantly, almost breaking apart, but the entire jade disc didn't even leave a single white mark.
At this moment, Li Yang, holding the Nanming Sword, looked once again at the ravaged "Crimson Sky Flame Palace" and finally had no choice but to accept it.
This ancestral scripture repository of the Bai family has already been claimed by someone else!

(End of this chapter)