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

Luo Heng knew the nature of the world of "Covering the Sky": without a strong enough mind and perseverance, no matter how many external things were added, it would be difficult to prove the Great Dao.

The best way to temper one's will is through battle, forging an invincible Dao heart amidst blood and fire.

However, "knowing" and "doing" are two different things.

Born into modern society, he finds it difficult to truly push himself to "fight to the death." If it really comes down to a life-or-death situation, he's likely to back down now.

Even the dark turmoil he claims to want to quell, if he were truly asked to risk his life, he might abandon everything and hide on Earth.

For him, life was always the most important thing; everything else could take a back seat.

Therefore, he will only challenge the limits under the premise of ensuring absolute safety.

He also understands that his "mental character" may be a weakness for a long time to come, but this is a predicament that cannot be solved at present.

His purpose in making this move was to conduct a comprehensive stress test of his abilities in a relatively safe environment.

The result is already clear:

Without relying on any extraordinary means, his combat strength is roughly at the second or third level based solely on his physical constitution and the Yao Guang Secret Technique.

He is roughly equivalent to the level of a holy son from a second-rate holy land such as the Purple Mansion Holy Land or the Myriad Beginnings Holy Land.

If the "Dou Zi Secret" or other ancient emperor's secret techniques are used, the combat power can be raised to the fourth level, which is close to the level when Ji Haoyue first appeared.

When he previously hurled the Holy Light Spear from the heavens, he possessed similar combat power, roughly equivalent to the fourth or fifth level of the Dao Palace realm. However, he borrowed the power of the Great Luo Heaven to "divide it into a thousand," thus creating that terrifying effect of covering the entire battlefield.

In reality, the power of a single attack did not increase much, which is why those cultivators at the Fourth Extreme Realm were able to withstand it without injury.

If he were to unleash the "Desolate" secret technique, his combat power would reach the fifth or sixth level of the Forbidden Realm, which is why he was able to easily suppress those cultivators at the first level of the Fourth Extreme Realm.

His full power manifested as the "Great Emperor Huang Zeng Tian," merging his body with the Great Luo Heavenly Heart Seal.

At this moment, his combat power had reached the threshold of the ten forbidden realms, which was just enough to contend with a cultivator at the first level of the Dragon Transformation Realm—this was the fundamental reason why he had been able to fight Xing Daorong for so long.

However, it should be noted that Luo Heng entered the "Ten Forbidden Realms," not the "Divine Forbidden Realms." Although the two sound similar, they are fundamentally different.

He currently only has high enough combat power to fight against opponents of higher levels, but he hasn't achieved the comprehensive sublimation of a god.

If he hadn't just experienced that life-or-death struggle, which led to a breakthrough in his mental state and a moment of inspiration that allowed him to advance the "Desolate" secret technique to the next level, briefly pushing his combat power to the eleventh level, he wouldn't have been able to kill Xing Daorong in one fell swoop.

As for the so-called "Taihuang Huangzengtian", it is actually the projection of the Great Luotian World within his body, superimposed on the real world of Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

Because the current size of the Great Luo Heaven is far smaller than that of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, the so-called projection "expansion" is actually a kind of "superposition state".

This superimposed space belongs to both the Nine Heavens and the Ten Earths, as well as the Great Luo Heaven.

However, due to the vast difference in size, the Great Luo Heaven can only control about 10% of the rules of heaven and earth;

Luo Heng himself only possesses one-tenth of the authority of the Great Luo Heaven. Therefore, in this superimposed space, his actual control is only one percent.

However, don't underestimate this one percent. Luo Heng once tried it and found that even a saint would have their strength weakened by one percent when entering this domain.

He himself received a one percent enhancement in all aspects: his physique, speed, secret techniques, and even the strength of his divine power were all improved.

The most terrifying aspect is that this one percent increase ignores the Eight Forbidden Barriers, allowing Luo Heng to directly step into the realm above the Eight Forbidden Barriers.

This is the strange phenomenon created by Luo Heng himself—the Supreme Emperor Huangzeng Heaven of the Thirty-Six Heavens.

As for why it's named this way?

It was only because Luo Heng speculated that if the size of the Great Luo Heaven continued to grow, or if his own authority increased, he could control 20% of the Great Luo Heaven's rules.

He might then be able to take over more rules of superimposed spacetime. At that time, this phenomenon could be renamed "Tai Ming Yu Wan Tian".

Similarly, as strength and authority increase, the name of the phenomenon can also be upgraded.

Qingming Hetongtian, Xuantai Pingyutian, Yuanming Wenjutian, etc.

He speculated that if one day he could control 60% of the authority of the Great Luo Heaven, and the Great Luo Heaven itself grew to be comparable to 60% of the size of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, then he could use the Great Luo Heaven to devour the entire Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

At that time, his extraordinary phenomenon will be truly worthy of the name: Great Luo Heaven.

……

Seeing that the fierce battle had finally ended, Xia Jiuyou hurriedly ran forward. Looking at Luo Heng, whose face was slightly pale, she asked worriedly, "Hey, liar, are you alright? Can you still hold on?"

Black Emperor didn't step forward. Instead, he took a few steps back and circled Luo Heng twice from a distance. His dog face was full of surprise and doubt. He couldn't help but bark, "Woof! You brat, what's wrong with you? You're only at the Other Shore Realm, yet you managed to kill a Dragon Transformation Stage 1 expert..."

This is way beyond the eight forbidden rules, isn't it? No, something's not right, it's definitely not right! You wouldn't happen to be some ancient emperor who has been possessed and reincarnated, would you?

As it spoke, it subconsciously took a few steps back, its eyes full of vigilance.

Gai Jiuyou and Wei Yi, however, remained calm, seemingly unsurprised by the situation.

Upon hearing this, Luo Heng simply rolled his eyes, too lazy to waste any more words on this damned dog.

He flipped his hand and took out a small green jade bottle, which contained the little girl's tears.

He examined it for a moment, a look of pain flashing across his face, but in the end he put it away and took out another white jade bottle instead.

The bottle contained clear, sparkling droplets, faintly glowing with rosy light—it was holy water taken from the ninth level of the sacred pool in the Jade Pool Holy Land.

"What's dirty won't make you sick," Luo Heng told himself, trying to convince himself.

Then he tilted his head back and drank the holy water in the bottle in one gulp. He then sat cross-legged on the spot, closed his eyes and concentrated his mind. His aura gradually deepened, and he began to calm down and recover.

……

Although Luo Heng had just defeated the Transformation Dragon at the Other Shore Realm, this achievement was enough to terrify countless cultivators on the Big Dipper Star.

Even if the Great Emperor Wushi, who was of the same realm, were to come in person, he would probably have to admit defeat, and then sigh, "At the end of the immortal path, who is the peak? Upon seeing Luo Heng, all is in vain," before leaving in despair.

However, if we rephrase it, the matter isn't so outrageous:

For example, "Luo Heng of the Other Shore Realm killed a powerful expert at the first level of the Dragon Transformation Realm with the help of a saintly weapon."

—So, after hearing this, do you suddenly think, "Oh, that's it?"

In fact, the "Great Luo Heaven" inside Luo Heng's body was a standard saint-level artifact.

However, it was more of an auxiliary tool, and it was refined by Luo Heng into a tool for proving the Dao from the embryonic stage. Later, it was blessed by Shi Hao's World Repair Scripture, and nurtured day and night by a massive amount of divine materials, which finally pushed it to the level of a saint.

It could even be considered Luo Heng's "innate companion spiritual treasure".