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

Seeing this, an old man next to him smiled and explained, "This is the Great Sun True Fire Formation of the Yao Guang Holy Land, which can directly draw the true fire of the sun from the Sun Star to refine weapons."

This is why these sacred families don't need to go to the Fire Domain; each of them possesses an astonishing heritage and profound foundation.

However, as he spoke, the old man seemed a little puzzled, his brows furrowing slightly, and he couldn't help but mutter to himself, "Legend has it that when all thirty-six array diagrams of this True Sun Fire Array are fully activated, the True Fire extracted is comparable to the eighth or ninth level of the Fire Domain."

It was generally used by ancient sages when they were forging weapons.

The Yao Guang Holy Land hasn't been fully opened for many years. In recent years, their disciples have only needed to open a few levels, and the elders a dozen or so. Why is it being fully opened now?

Upon hearing this, the young man beside him looked at the old man in surprise and exclaimed, "Could it be that another ancient sage has been born in the Yao Guang Holy Land?"

"How could that be? In this post-ancient era, cultivation is extremely difficult. Even immortals who have severed their Dao and become kings are extremely rare, let alone ancient sages." At this point, the old man shook his head helplessly.

He then added, "However, if a powerful immortal like the Holy Lord of Yaoguang were to gather a large number of elders to work together, it might be possible to open the thirty-six layers of the array and use it to forge a powerful weapon."

"It seems that soon, another world-shaking artifact will emerge in the Yao Guang Holy Land."

Upon hearing this, the young cultivator looked at the old man with admiration. The old man, seeing this, simply smiled and stroked his beard.

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Just as the old man and the young man were talking, in the weapon-refining hall of the Yao Guang Holy Land, the purple bronze furnace was completely enveloped by brilliant golden flames, and the furnace body vibrated, emitting a series of rumbling sounds.

As the Great Sun True Fire continued to burn and refine it, the deep purple color of the furnace gradually faded, turning into a dazzling and pure golden-red.

Looking from afar, the original bronze furnace was nowhere to be seen. Instead, it resembled a miniature sun rising and burning in the hall, its light shimmering and its heat intense.

As Gai Jiuyou and Wei Yi continuously poured their divine power into the "Great Sun," chaotic light burst forth from it.

Upon closer inspection, one can discover that the divine power of the two is densely covered with countless tiny Dao patterns, flowing endlessly like a galaxy.

Ten days passed, and Luo Heng waited anxiously not far away.

The chaotic light emitted by the "Great Sun" grew even more intense, soaring into the sky and manifesting a phantom image of a stone exquisite in mid-air.

The phantom was entirely of a chaotic color, with nine holes on its surface, and chaotic energy surging like the sea inside, as if it were giving birth to a world.

Its appearance was exactly the same as the Fairy Linglong that Luo Heng had previously obtained by cutting the stone.

Seeing that the time was right, Gai Jiuyou and Wei Yi nodded to each other, and Gai Jiuyou took out three World Stones.

This is a rare treasure in the world of Shrouding the Heavens, which can only be created when a small world is opened up, and can even be used to reopen a world.

These are the only three remaining in the entire Yao Guang Holy Land.

As the two exchanged hand seals and activated their secret techniques, the world power contained within the World Stone was slowly drawn out, transforming into three dazzling streams of light that all disappeared into the chaotic phantom.

The power of three World Stones was fused into one artifact; such a feat is truly astonishing.

Another half month passed, and as Gai Jiuyou and Wei Yi simultaneously withdrew their divine power, the golden flames around the "Great Sun" slowly shrank.

At the same time, the thirty-six massive magic arrays above the weapon-refining hall slowly disappeared into the void.

"This Yao Guang Holy Land truly lives up to its name. Using such a Solar True Fire Array and Great Sun True Fire Furnace for refining weapons is truly twice as effective with half the effort," Wei Yi couldn't help but exclaim.

Gai Jiuyou simply smiled and nodded. Then, with a wave of his hand, the lid of the bronze furnace, which had turned purple again, rolled up, and something floated out and slowly landed in front of Luo Heng in the distance.

This object looks like a hollowed-out stone ball, only about an inch tall. It has no dazzling light or terrifying divine power fluctuations; it only has nature and antiquity.

In the center, a ball of chaotic energy condensed like a chicken egg, slowly rotating, and at the same time, it seemed to be pulsating gently as if it had a life of its own.

This was the artifact Luo Heng desired. It was not large, even appearing small, but it gave off a grand and majestic feeling. It was not like an ordinary artifact, but rather more like a star, a star field, or an ancient and vast universe.

At this moment, Luo Heng could no longer care about anything else and quickly released his divine power, wanting to take it into his own sea of ​​suffering.

However, no matter how much divine power he exerted, the stone seemed as heavy as a universe, and he could not budge it in the slightest.

Seeing this, Gai Jiuyou frowned slightly and said with a worried expression, "Young friend Luo Heng, I really don't understand why you insist on doing this."

During this weapon forging, Fellow Daoist Wei Yi and I did our best to suppress its power and did not inscribe any other Dao patterns on it, in order to keep it in a rough state as much as possible.

However, given its inherent nature, if you wish to refine it into a tool for your own enlightenment, your path to enlightenment will undoubtedly be filled with many more hardships.

Therefore, if there are other options, I still advise you to consider them carefully.

Luo Heng first bowed to Gai Jiuyou and Wei Yi to express his gratitude for their help. Then, he looked up and said confidently, "Seniors, this is exactly what I need. Please rest assured, I know exactly what I'm doing."

Seeing this, Gai Jiuyou said nothing more, but waved his hand and released a divine power, slowly sending the stone pendant into Luo Heng's sea of ​​suffering.

Upon seeing this, Luo Heng quickly sat down cross-legged. Above his sea of ​​suffering, which resembled a deep whirlpool, Shi Linglong was gently floating.

Seeing this, Luo Heng immediately activated the "Soldier" secret technique and the secret art from the "Undying Heavenly Art". A completely black, exquisitely crafted celestial jade, meticulously forged from countless "divine runes", emerged from his body and slowly floated towards the ancient stone jade.

After a cultivator opens up the Sea of ​​Bitterness, they can condense "divine runes" within it. These divine runes are formed from the essence of life, and each one is like a divine iron chain, coiled in the sky above the deep Sea of ​​Bitterness.

Cultivators can directly control these divine runes for attack and defense, or they can forge these primordial divine runes into various forms, such as throwing knives, flying swords, and daggers. In this way, they can kill enemies outside their bodies and are far more powerful and easier to control than the primordial divine runes.

Those who pursue perfection are not afraid of complexity and repeatedly forge the divine patterns into shapes such as "cauldrons", "bells", and "towers" in order to obtain various mysterious powers.

Naturally, the more complex the shape, the harder it is to form; many people have spent years trying to create even a basic prototype.

Even if one succeeds by chance, it will be difficult to make any progress in subsequent cultivation, since those who can touch the "trajectory of the Dao" have been extremely rare since ancient times.

Refining primordial divine runes into artifacts is of paramount importance to cultivators.

This is not only the foundation for future artifact manipulation, but also determines how far one can go on the path of cultivation. After determining the shape of an artifact, most people will look for a matching spiritual treasure in order to unleash its maximum power.

Luo Heng has always been self-aware.

Initially, he planned to simply practice on the ball and be done with it, but then he thought: being strong is temporary, but being handsome is for a lifetime.

That's why I went to the Ji family stone workshop to find the Immortal Linglong as a reference and forged my own divine patterns in the same way.

Previously, he seemed to be enjoying a leisurely life in Yaoguang Stone Workshop, but in reality, the hammering and forging in the Sea of ​​Bitterness never stopped.

This jet-black Immortal Linglong was meticulously forged by him using his own divine runes, and it was already ready. It was just waiting for Gai Jiuyou and the others to refine the Chaos Stone into shape before the final step could be completed.

As the two slowly merged, Luo Heng was finally able to manipulate the stone exquisitely a little.

Luo Heng slowly probed a wisp of his divine sense into the stone, and suddenly a world opened up before his eyes.

Although this newly opened little world is only tens of thousands of miles in circumference, it has its own magnificent atmosphere of pioneering and opening up the world.