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

Chapter 98 contains an "Easter egg"

Meeting the resentful gaze of the Holy Maiden of Yaochi, Luo Heng felt a little uneasy.

"Saint Luo Heng is truly skilled," the Holy Maiden of Yaochi said calmly. "I merely exchanged one of the Nine Secrets from you, and you turned around and learned my Yaochi Imperial Scripture. Your methods are truly superb."

Luo Heng stopped pretending to be shy and looked speechless: "Hey, don't say that. This really isn't my fault. I really didn't want to learn your Imperial Scripture. It's all that damn dog's fault. If I don't learn it, it bites me. But as soon as I stop learning it, it bites me. You have no idea what it did to me—"

The Holy Maiden of Yaochi only replied with two words: "Hehe."

Then I stopped paying attention to him.

Luo Heng could only awkwardly pick up the stone he had just acquired, pretending to examine it to cover his embarrassment.

After a while, the Queen Mother of the West returned, her expression now calm.

"Since the Holy Son has already studied a portion of my Yaochi Emperor Scripture, exchanging it with you is not impossible." She paused, "However, I have two conditions."

Luo Heng's eyes lit up: "Go ahead."

"First, we hope that the Holy Son can provide a detailed explanation of the current situation of the old Yaochi site, and it would be best if he could draw a map."

Luo Heng readily agreed.

"Secondly, I hope the Holy Son will tell us truthfully what you took from the old site of Yaochi."

Luo Heng was speechless on the spot.

What do you mean? That I emptied the sacred spring of your Jade Pool Holy Land? That I stole all of Emperor Wushi's blood? If I really said that, would I still be able to leave Jade Pool alive today?

Seeing Luo Heng's troubled expression, the Queen Mother of the West's face also turned a little pale, probably guessing that he had taken quite a lot of things.

The atmosphere in the hall froze.

After a while, Luo Heng spoke first, his face sincere: "Well, it's not that I don't want to say, it's that I promised that black dog I wouldn't tell anyone what I took, otherwise I'll never be able to attain enlightenment in this lifetime—"

He didn't care whether the Queen Mother of the West believed it or not; he simply believed it himself.

The Queen Mother of the West clearly didn't believe it.

Luo Heng's eyes darted around, and he quickly added, "How about this, I'll offer the complete chapter of the 'Taoist Scripture: The Sea of ​​Wheels' as compensation, is that alright?"

The Queen Mother of the West's expression softened slightly. After a moment of contemplation, she finally nodded.

Yaochi, after all, could not afford to clash head-on with Yaoguang Holy Land, which was in the eye of the storm and possessed a semi-ultimate imperial weapon, for some uncertain old treasures.

The way Luo Heng offered was already quite generous.

After Luo Heng finished handing over everything to Yaochi Holy Land, he turned around and headed towards the Domain Gate without saying a word—back to Yao Guang!

Upon returning to the Yao Guang Holy Land, Luo Heng rushed directly into the meditation room used for seclusion.

He carried the stone that sealed the Heavenly Emperor's son and turned to enter the Great Luo Heaven.

Sure enough, as soon as they stepped inside, the stone that sealed the Emperor's son began to shake violently.

Five-colored divine light shot into the sky, like a pillar of light tearing through the clouds—clearly a cry for help from the outside world.

Luo Heng didn't hold back, directly mobilizing the power of the Great Luo Heaven to suppress it with all his might. Then, he even connected with the Heavenly Heart Mark, forcibly probing his consciousness into the Heavenly Emperor's son's sea of ​​consciousness.

With the blessing of the Great Luo Heaven, he was like a true saint, effortlessly flipping through the Heavenly Emperor's memories, memorizing all the ancient scriptures of gods and various secret techniques in his mind.

Once he confirmed that he had copied down everything of value, Luo Heng did not hesitate and directly annihilated the Heavenly Emperor's son's primordial spirit.

Looking at the stone that had fallen silent again, a smug smile appeared on his lips.

—That's right. He had previously thought that he was probably the person with the deepest foundation and the most overpowered abilities in the world of Shrouding the Heavens, but then he suddenly realized: No, there really is someone who can go toe-to-toe with him, and that is the Heavenly Emperor's son!

The thought of this instantly made Luo Heng unhappy—how could he tolerate this? In the entire world of "Covering the Sky," he would never allow anyone to have a bigger cheat code than himself.

That's why he rushed to the Jade Pool Holy Land to exchange for that stone. As for the Western Emperor's Scripture Palace Scroll? That was just incidental.

Luo Heng took a deep breath and carefully peeled away the stone skin to reveal a giant egg covered with five-colored patterns.

"Wow, what a huge Easter egg!"

He rubbed his hands together with a smile, then punched the ground.

The eggshell shattered with a crack, revealing the lifeless body of a young boy inside, so handsome that he seemed otherworldly.

Looking at the corpse before him, Luo Heng shook his head and sighed with a look of deep sorrow and compassion: "Alas, a wise man keeps away from the kitchen; seeing the living is unbearable to witness the dead—"

He then waved his hand, and the power of the Great Luo Heaven directly returned the corpse to its original form—a huge five-colored divine bird suddenly appeared before him.

The hint of pity that Luo Heng had just managed to muster on his face vanished instantly, replaced by a greedy look as he pounced on the bird, groping it all over.

He first took out a five-colored heavenly blade.

The blade shimmered with the luster of five kinds of immortal gold: Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold, Feather Transformation Azure Gold, Dao Tribulation Gold, Bright White Gold, and Dragon Pattern Black Gold, exuding an astonishing aura.

Luo Heng couldn't help but swallow hard. The Emperor of Immortality is damn rich!

Next, he retrieved a tree sealed within the divine source from the Emperor's Sea of ​​Wheels.

The bark of the tree opens and closes like dragon scales, faintly exuding the aura of the Great Dao—it is actually an Enlightenment Tea Tree!

Upon closer inspection, there were no roots or stems, no main stem, only a few thick branches that had been cut off at the roots and were completely sealed inside a huge source of divine energy.

Luo Heng broke through the divine source, and divine light shot into the sky. More than three thousand tea leaves of enlightenment hung on the tree branch, each one shining brightly, some shaped like small cauldrons, some like the sun and moon, some like pagodas—all exhaling the lingering charm of the Dao.

Luo Heng didn't stop; he continued to pluck.

A pendant, carved from the heartwood of the Wudao Ancient Tea Tree.

Upon further digging, various ancient medicines, medicinal kings, and divine materials were scattered all over the ground like junk, their precious light shining brightly, illuminating the entire place.

Until Luo Heng pulled out a chessboard.

It's made of stone, and looks plain and unremarkable, without any special luster or brilliance; it's just the most ordinary stone.

Luo Heng's eyes lit up again.

He remembered reading in the original story that this chessboard contained the mark of an ancient calamity, used to temper one's divine sense. But that wasn't the point. The point was—this thing could temper one's character!

He looked down at the treasures piled up on the ground, then at the simple chessboard in his hand, feeling a sense of satisfaction.

Then he took out several bottles and jars sealed with divine energy and opened them one by one to examine them.

Some are miraculous medicines, some are divine springs, and some are rare things whose names I can't even recall.

Until he unscrewed a fiery red jade bottle and bang!

An extremely terrifying aura exploded out without warning. The feeling was almost comparable to a resurrected supreme imperial weapon, so powerful that it threatened to shatter one's soul.

Fortunately, they were in the Great Luo Heaven, and Luo Heng withstood the pressure with a single thought. He looked down into the bottle, and his pupils suddenly contracted.

It turned out to be a bottle of blood.

Its colors are multicolored, dazzling and dreamlike, completely different from human blood.

"—The blood of the Immortal Emperor?"

He murmured to himself, his eyes instantly shining like two lanterns.

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