In the world of "Covering the Sky": An Analysis of the Ancient Sacred Body at the Start

"Ye Fan, drive slowly and be careful. Rest when you're tired, and never drive while fatigued..."

"Don't worry, I will."

Dong Yuexi was a little worried and gave Ye Fan many instructions before parting. Although Ye Fan had obtained his driver's license several years ago, he had never driven a long distance.

"Alright, with me here, nothing will happen. Ye Fan and I are leaving now. When you go back, drive slowly and be careful."

Yu Yi signaled to Ye Fan that they could leave, and then drove for seven or eight hours until dawn, when the two finally arrived in Gui County.

Although Ye Fan had been driving all night, he was still full of energy. Even though his Ancient Sacred Body had not yet awakened, his physique was extraordinary.

Following the GPS navigation, the two drove to a small mountain village. Knowing that the boss had come in person, the head of the archaeological team waited at the village entrance early in the morning.

The head of the archaeological team was a hunched old man named Mao Yuanzhou. He was originally a tomb raider who excavated many large tombs in the 1970s and 1980s.

For some reason, he was later recruited by the state and transformed into an archaeological expert. After retiring a few years ago, he was invited back to the field by Yu Yi with a large sum of money.

"Old Mao, how many members of the archaeological team are trapped in the tomb? Have you figured out how to rescue them?"

"Boss, there are only four of us left in the archaeological team. The others are trapped in the tomb. We've tried many methods to rescue them, but all have failed."

Mao Yuanzhou looked worried. The archaeological team consisted of only fifteen people, but now eleven of them were trapped in the ancient tomb.

He wouldn't have called Dong Yuexi to ask Yu Yi for help if he hadn't been completely desperate.

"Boss, the ancient tomb is hundreds of meters below this lake; it's a huge underground palace..."

Led by Mao Yuanzhou, the group traversed a forest and arrived at a valley. The valley was covered in lush green grass and blooming flowers, like a paradise on earth.

In the very center of the valley lies a vast lake with crystal-clear water. From a high vantage point, one can vaguely see fish and shrimp swimming at the bottom of the lake.

The lake is surrounded by many ancient pines, rooted on the shore, their age unknown. They resemble ancient dragons coiling around the lake, their ancient branches reaching towards the sky.

Although the ancient tomb is built under the lake, there is no need to go into the water to enter it. The archaeological team had already dug a passage on the lakeside half a month ago.

After entering the passage, continue downwards, turning left and right, for a distance until a white jade staircase appears, leading deep underground.

After walking down the white jade steps for about ten minutes, a huge underground palace appeared in front of you, the entire palace shrouded by an ancient formation.

There are also characters carved on the stone gate of the underground palace. It is a very ancient script, the Great Seal script from before the Qin Dynasty, which is similar to the Oracle Bone script and also resembles the inscriptions on bells and tripods.

Of course, only Yu Yi could see the fluctuations of the formation, and at the same time, he did not sense any killing intent, indicating that it was not a killing formation, but rather some kind of concealment formation.

Because thousands of years have passed, the formation has been severely damaged, which is why the underground palace, which was originally hidden deep underground, has been revealed to the world.

However, although the formation was damaged, it was still functioning and not completely destroyed, which is why the archaeological team members were trapped in the underground palace and could not get out.

"Old Wang, are you all alright inside? You must hold on, we're trying to find a way to rescue you as soon as possible..."

"Don't worry, we're all fine. We have plenty of food and water. If we eat and drink sparingly, we can last for ten days or half a month..."

Perhaps due to the damage to the formation, although the archaeological team members were trapped in the underground palace and could not get out, their voices were still able to pass through the formation and reach the outside.

"You all stay outside. I'll go into the underground palace alone and see if I can rescue everyone..."

After Yu Yi finished speaking, he pushed open the stone door and entered the underground palace. Mao Yuanzhou and the others tried to dissuade him, but before they could speak, Yu Yi had already gone in.

"Boss, what brings you in? What's Old Man Mao up to? How could he let you put yourself in such danger?"

Old Wang is the deputy captain of the archaeological team, so he naturally knows Yu Yi. Yu Yi is their bread and butter. Anyone else can get into trouble, but Yu Yi cannot.

"Didn't you say you found a large number of jade slips and special minerals in the tomb? Where are they?"

"Boss, everything is here."

Old Wang put down the backpack he was carrying on his back, opened it, and took out more than a dozen jade slips and more than a dozen fist-sized pieces of various shapes.

Yi glanced at those sources and then looked away; what he had in abundance right now was resources.

Yu Yi picked up a jade scroll, opened it, and began to read it. This jade scroll was not the kind found in the cultivation world; it was simply a scroll carved from spirit jade.

Bamboo and wooden slips originated in the Shang Dynasty and continued until the Eastern Han Dynasty. Made of bamboo or wood, they were among the earliest formal forms of books in ancient China.

The slips used by cultivators are naturally not bamboo or wooden slips, but are carved from the finest spiritual jade, which can be preserved for thousands or even tens of thousands of years without decaying.

However, as time has passed, these jade slips have become dull in color, lost most of their spiritual essence, and some even have blood stains on them.

The so-called blood staining is a colored substance in jade, usually in the form of threads, formed by the blood of a corpse seeping into it after prolonged contact with the body.

The characters in the jade slip were also in the Great Seal script. Although Yu Yi did not recognize them, he was able to understand the meaning of each character through his divine sense.

The significance of jade slips lies in this: the person who inscribed the jade slips left a spiritual imprint on them, and their meaning could be understood through divine perception.

The jade slip did not record any cultivation techniques or supernatural abilities, but rather the life story of the tomb's owner, who was named Yin Guan and a descendant of Yin Xi.

Most people have probably heard of the legend of Yin Xi, who was one of the nine celestial deities of the mythological era and the successor of Laozi, the immortal corpse of the Moral Celestial Venerable.

"Since Yin Guan was a descendant of Yin Xi, did he receive Laozi's teachings from Yin Xi? Did he leave any traces of his teachings in other jade slips?"

Thinking that there might be Lao Tzu's legacy in the other jade slips, Yu Yi was filled with anticipation. He just didn't know if Lao Tzu's legacy was the Daoist scripture.

The novel *Covering the Sky* does not explicitly state who created the Daoist scriptures. Some believe it was created by the Moral Celestial Venerable, while others believe it was created by the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.

Whether it was created by the Celestial Venerable of Morality or the Desolate Emperor, one thing is undeniable: the Daoist Scripture is an extremely powerful ancient scripture.

Every emperor creates his own imperial scripture, and among the many imperial scriptures, very few can be ranked alongside the Daoist scriptures, let alone completely surpass them.

"There really was a record of a method..."

After reading through the dozen or so jade slips, Yu Yi discovered a profound cultivation method in one of them, containing endless mysteries.