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

The world was filled with the hazy Daoist charm of the primordial chaos. In the void, there were chains of Daoist principles, seemingly cast from celestial gold, appearing and disappearing intermittently. They pierced through the void, shimmering with ancient and profound patterns, as if they were the primordial laws that supported the operation of this world.

The mountains on the earth rise and fall like the spine of a dragon, and the rocks are exposed with natural patterns, as if they were engraved by the Great Dao.

A vast river flows through the land, its waters formed from liquefied primordial energy of heaven and earth. As it surges, divine radiance flows, and the rising mist is condensed with fine fragments of laws.

The sky above was not an ordinary heaven, but a thick layer of chaotic clouds, displaying an unusual color that was a mixture of black and light purple.

Thunder and lightning occasionally flashed in the clouds, but these were no ordinary flashes. Each flash subtly outlined the trajectory of the Great Dao, as if the heavens and earth were evolving their own rules.

What is most astonishing is the sheer power of the origin of this world. Even the spiritual energy in the core secret realm of a supreme sect like the Yao Guang Holy Land is as thin as smoke compared to this place.

Every blade of grass, every tree, every stone, and every drop of water here seems to be directly condensed from the purest essence of heaven and earth.

Luo Heng stood still in this new world, his gaze far-reaching.

Using the Chaos Stone as a foundation, he smelted three World Stones to create this world, intending to forge it into his own weapon of enlightenment—neither a knife nor a sword, neither a bell nor a tower, nor a cauldron. Rather, it was a real, growing little world.

This is also why he chose to use the Chaos Stone.

The cultivators in the world of Shrouding the Heavens are very obsessed with powerful attack capabilities. The magical artifacts they forge are either weapons or heavy weapons, and are basically used for combat.

In this situation, materials such as Xuanhuang Mother Qi or Nine Great Immortal Gold would naturally be more suitable.

However, what Luo Heng needs is an artifact that can assist him, and in terms of opening up small worlds, the Chaos Stone should be the most suitable choice.

Just like how steel is better for making cold weapons, but copper is more suitable for making electrical wires.

There is no such thing as the best material in the world, only the most suitable material.

This is why he insisted on Gai Jiuyou and Wei Yi's help.

Because one must reach at least the Saint Realm to create a small world, if he were to do it himself, it would be an unknown amount of time.

After that, Luo Heng sat cross-legged and slowly forged the weapon using the weapon-forging secrets from the "Undying Heavenly Art" and the "Soldier" Secret.

This process took more than half a month, until Luo Heng finally refined it into his own magical artifact.

Suppressing his inner joy, he activated his profound magic, intending to summon Shi Linglong, but found that she was as heavy as a mountain and could not be moved.

Luo Heng was not surprised by this; he had expected it long ago.

Although Gai Jiuyou and Wei Yi did not inscribe formations or Daoist scripts on it, it was still a small world, and its size was considerable.

Regardless of anything else, in terms of sheer size, it is at least close to the level of a saint. How could Luo Heng's meager divine power possibly shake it?

If Ye Fan struggled to move the Myriad Things Mother Qi Cauldron for the first time in the original work, then Luo Heng's attempt to push Shi Linglong was like an ant trying to shake a tree, with Shi Linglong remaining completely still.

This is precisely why Gai Jiuyou dissuaded Luo Heng from refining the small world into a tool for proving the Dao.

Treating the small world as a vessel for enlightenment is like forging the sun in the sky into a vessel for enlightenment.

Despite their enormous size, they are essentially ordinary. They can be used with difficulty at lower cultivation levels, but once one's cultivation level increases, they become useless.

Moreover, due to its large size, Luo Heng had almost no chance of activating it to fight enemies before reaching the Sendai realm, which undoubtedly rendered part of the Dao-proving artifact useless in the early stages.

This is why very few people refine small worlds or sun stars into tools for proving their Dao.

Cultivators actually value the innate essence of artifacts more, such as the Nine Great Immortal Metals or the Xuanhuang Qi. Their materials are inherently celestial treasures, and even if they are small in size, there is always a chance to gradually make up for their shortcomings in the future.

However, for materials like small worlds and solar stars, which are large in size but poor in quality, it is almost impossible to improve their quality in the future.

Of course, this only applies to ordinary cultivators. For Luo Heng, this is exactly the effect he wants, because he is about to "activate his cheat code" again.

Luo Heng looked inward at the stone spirit floating above the sea of ​​bitterness, his expression gradually becoming solemn.

He held his breath and focused his mind, using his divine sense as a pen, began to carve the Immortal Realm Repair Scripture he had obtained from the ancient bronze coffin into the depths of the stone exquisite piece, stroke by stroke.

The moment the first ancient character fell—

"clang--!"

A Daoist voice, seemingly from the beginning of time, suddenly resounded in his heart, as majestic as a great bell, causing his entire sea of ​​suffering to churn.

Immediately afterwards, hundreds of ancient characters flowed through his mind like a galaxy, bringing an indescribable sense of clarity and joy, instantly sweeping away the fatigue of the past few days.

Unlike the original story where Ye Fan's inscriptions disappeared immediately, these ancient characters were deeply imprinted on the surface of the stone, like naturally formed Dao patterns, perfectly blending with the stone's texture.

As the last ancient character fell—

"Snap!"

A faint yet profound sound, seemingly originating from the very source of the universe, echoed from the void.

In that instant, the scenery above the Sea of ​​Bitterness suddenly changed dramatically.

On the surface of the stone, hundreds of ancient characters simultaneously emitted chaotic immortal light! The small world projection, which was originally floating steadily, began to expand and contract autonomously, like breathing.

The primordial energy river within roared and surged, creating towering waves; the chaotic clouds in the sky spun wildly, and streaks of purple lightning danced like dragons and snakes, cleaving through the void.

The previously blurred boundary wall at the edge of the small world began to solidify, and primordial Dao patterns naturally spread and intertwined on the boundary wall, faintly outlining the innate diagram of the rotation of the four elements of earth, water, fire, and wind, and the differentiation of yin and yang.

Tiny fragments of laws began to condense spontaneously in the void, drifting like dust across the world.

At that moment, time seemed to stand still.

Shi Linglong floated quietly above the Bitter Sea, her entire body shrouded in chaotic mist, her surface flowing with a Daoist charm that time could not erase.

Most remarkably, this little world began to exude an aura of "completeness".

It no longer depends on the great laws of this universe, but rather has its own self-evolving laws and self-circulating cycles, like a truly independent world seed, containing the potential to grow into a complete universe.

Luo Heng stared blankly at the scene in the Sea of ​​Bitterness, finding it utterly unbelievable and unable to process what was happening.

But in reality, he had no idea. That Daoist voice just now not only echoed in his Sea of ​​Bitterness, but resounded throughout the entire Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, directly striking into the souls of all the powerful beings of this era!

In the Eastern Wilderness, the Northern Plains, the Western Desert, the Southern Ridge, the Central Plains, and even in some ancient places deep in the universe, anyone whose cultivation has reached a certain level will feel something in that instant and involuntarily look up at the sky.

Deep within Burial Sky Island, a gaze that had been silent for countless ages suddenly opened, as if it wanted to pierce through the void.

Chaotic energy surged within the Primordial Ancient Mine, while invisible divine thoughts swept back and forth above the Big Dipper Starfield.

Within the Immortal Tomb, faint whispers filled with astonishment and doubt could be heard...

However, when these forbidden beings tried to deduce the secrets of heaven and trace the origin, they found that all the secrets of heaven were unclear and the cause and effect were in a mess, as if there was a power beyond this world that was disturbing the rules of the Great Dao.

Unable to deduce the truth, these forbidden beings could only temporarily suppress their thoughts, attributing the recent anomaly to some kind of omen before the opening of the path to immortality.

This judgment, on the contrary, made some of them even more convinced that the path to immortality had begun in this world.