Chapter 149: Daozu's Golden Body, Record of the Eternal True Tribulation

Under the red sunset, the ruined temple stood among the weeds, and time seemed to have completely stopped.

The main body of the entire temple was incomplete. Most of the structure had been weathered into powder, the beams and pillars had cracked, and the wood had turned into sand in the long time.

Chu Zheng stepped into the temple sideways, opened his spiritual eyes, and carefully observed the surroundings.

There were no magic circles, no traces of fighting, no special spiritual fluctuations, and occasionally a few messages popped up on the panel, all of which were extremely ordinary things.

After a glance, Chu Zheng cast his eyes on the half-statue sitting high on the altar.

The statue was a blue-gray color, and the upper body had been broken. Only the wide hem of the robe could be seen, with simple and rough lines.

Chu Zheng looked around for a while, and the panel soon sent a prompt.

[Incomplete Statue (Level 5/Incomplete): A golden statue of a powerful being, created more than 740,000 years ago. Due to the closure of heaven and earth, it was disconnected from the outside world and its divine power was gradually lost. Over a long period of time, it was covered in dust and dirt. It can be repaired (0/1000) (Details)]

[Details: The statue of the Taoist Ancestor was once worshiped by all spirits. After the seal of heaven and earth, it was infected by evil spirits and underwent changes. In order to resist the erosion of evil spirits, it exhausted its divine power. After repair, worship with Taoist rituals can get the blessing of the Taoist Ancestor. ]

Statue of the Taoist Ancestor?

Chu Zheng's eyes suddenly condensed. This inconspicuous ruined temple actually enshrined a Taoist Ancestor.

For a moment, he was a little unsure whether this Taoist Ancestor was the same person that Ji Yuyan had told him before in the Xianwu battlefield.

Chu Zheng moved closer, gently twisted the dust under the statue, and then his expression changed slightly.

He sensed a strange breath, which was very similar to the evil spirit emanating from the space channel above the giant lake.

Perhaps, it was because of the evil spirit that the statue collapsed.

What shocked him even more was that this statue was made of ordinary clay without any spiritual energy, but its grade was so high, which was undoubtedly beyond common sense.

There was a broken curtain on the side of the statue. Chu Zheng looked at it for a few times and his expression was slightly moved.

There were cranes and auspicious clouds embroidered on the top of the curtain. Although it has faded now, some traces can still be seen. It is not a magic weapon, but a hand-embroidered object with exquisite embroidery.

In his previous life, he had seen countless treasures handed down from ancient times. This one was also of the best quality, no less than the top famous embroidery.

However, no matter how exquisite the embroidery was, it was just an ordinary object.

Everything in this dilapidated temple was mediocre. Except for this statue, there was not even any spiritual object of the first rank.

It is hard to imagine that a real golden statue of the Taoist ancestor lives here.

After calming down, Chu Zheng stood up and began to repair the dilapidated temple. It was obviously inappropriate to ignore the golden statue of the Taoist ancestor in front of him.

What's more, a statue of a fifth-level god may bring him some new inspiration after it is repaired.

According to the prompts on the panel, after the repair, he can get the blessing of the Taoist ancestor.

However, now that this world has been closed, whether this blessing can be conveyed to him is still a question mark.

While repairing, Chu Zheng couldn't help but have some guesses in his heart.

As soon as he stepped into the secret realm, he found this dilapidated temple.

He practiced the Taoist Qi refining method, and here happened to enshrine a Taoist ancestor, which was really too coincidental.

The only explanation Chu Zheng could think of was that the secret realm intentionally teleported him here according to the Qi refining method he practiced.

If he was a Taoist cultivator, the place he went to might be a place with immortal fate.

If this guess is true, then this secret realm undoubtedly hides a huge secret.

This world is very likely to be spiritual.

If this inference is correct, then it doesn't seem so strange that Shang Cangyun was able to obtain the inheritance of the Immortal King.

There is no reason not to get the opportunity that is at your fingertips.

Chu Zheng sorted out the thoughts in his mind, and his hands kept moving, sweeping away all the weeds within a radius of 100 feet. In a short moment, under the effect of the repair panel, the dilapidated temple was completely new and spotless.

The blue bricks and tiles, the beams and pillars were bright red like blood, and the altar was clear. Only the half-broken statue seemed a little out of place.

On the repaired plaque in front of the door, there were only two large gilded characters: "Dao Palace", simple and clear.

According to the current repair frequency of 20 times a day, it only takes 50 days to repair this statue, which is more than enough time.

After using up the twenty repair times on the panel, Chu Zheng turned around and left the Taoist Palace, took out the Cangyun Secret Realm Map given to him by Geng Yiyang, and began to determine his own position.

Such a vast secret realm is right in front of him. It is undoubtedly a pity to waste it here for such a long time.

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In the Cangyun Secret Realm Map, the area that has been explored is already tens of millions of miles in radius.

Among them, it is divided into three categories of areas, marked in black, red and gold. On this map, Geng Yiyang gave a very considerate hint.

Gold represents the area where there have been opportunities for immortality, red represents traces of other ways, and black represents dangerous places that cannot be set foot on.

In addition to these three types of areas, the entire periphery of the map and some areas are shrouded in a layer of mist.

That is a place that no one has ever set foot on, or in other words, it is an area that Taixuan Holy Land does not know about.

Geng Yiyang's map is already old compared to the maps of the other major holy lands.

After all, Taixuan Holy Land has been closed for a long time, and the last time it sent disciples of the Condensed Soul Realm into the secret realm was thousands of years ago.

After that, no cultivators of the Condensed Soul Realm appeared in Taixuan Holy Land, and the relationship was broken.

Because he needed to repair the Taoist Golden Body, Chu Zheng could not leave too far.

After spending most of the day and exploring nearly 100,000 miles, Chu Zheng finally confirmed his position.

His location was close to the edge of the map, belonging to a red area.

The only red area nearby is the Dao Palace. There are four areas with golden light and six black areas, most of which have huge risks.

Four of the black areas have brief information labels, such as:

[Remaining ancient killing array], [Powerful alien creature, shaped like a dragon, its scales are difficult to be damaged by top-grade magic weapons, and its breath is highly poisonous], etc., which are all descriptions of dangerous places.

The remaining two black areas have no information labels, which means unknown risks. There is a high probability that a soul-condensing cultivator died inexplicably in them, and the reason is still unknown.

After a brief consideration, Chu Zheng set off to one of the areas with golden light.

Although this area has been explored by others, Chu Zheng believes that there must be some "treasures" left behind.

He hopes to find some fragments of immortal treasures or even immortal pills. Even if he cannot repair them now, there will always be a day in the future when he can repair them.

When his cultivation level is sufficient, these things will naturally come in handy.

Soon, Chu Zheng arrived at the area marked on the map.

It was obvious that this was the ruins of an immortal sect, covering a thousand miles in radius. There was a faint spiritual energy floating underneath, and it was obvious that there had been a spiritual vein.

Hundreds of thousands of years had passed, and the spiritual energy had not dissipated under the isolation of heaven and earth. When this spiritual vein was at its peak, it was at least a top-grade spiritual vein.

In order to prevent mistakes, Chu Zheng opened his spiritual eyes and swept through.

Every inch of this place had obvious signs of being swept. The last cultivator who came here did not even let go of the underground, and almost turned the area of ​​a thousand miles upside down, obviously worried about missing the hidden treasure house.

Soon, Chu Zheng found its alchemy hall along the general layout of this immortal sect.

One of the messy alchemy furnaces, which had lost a lot of spiritual energy, fell crookedly on the ground, the top cover had been opened, and the medicine residue was all over the ground.

[Fengyang Ding (Level 5/Incomplete): Top-grade magic weapon, cast 700,000 years ago. Under the test of time, the spiritual energy has been lost, the magic array has collapsed, and it has almost become scrap iron. It can be repaired (0/200) (Details)]

[Details: After being burned by the divine fire, it has absorbed the essence of plants and trees for years and months, and has the energy of gold, wood, and fire. It is only half a step away from spiritual communication, which can greatly increase the success rate of alchemy. After repair, it can be nurtured by high-level divine fire and is expected to be spiritual within a hundred years. ]

A treasure that is about to be spiritual is equivalent to having an extra spiritual assistant in a hundred years after repair.

For magic weapons, spiritual treasures are a qualitative change. Once spiritual, they have consciousness, which is equivalent to having life, and are no longer dead objects.

They can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and repair themselves on their own. The time they stay in this world alone is more than a hundred times stronger than that of top-grade magic weapons.

There were several withered skeletons sitting in the corner of the palace. They were obviously cultivators from this immortal sect. It was just unknown whether these people were alive or dead when this world was sealed.

There were no traces of storage magic weapons on these people. It was likely that they had been taken away by their predecessors.

According to the prompts on the panel, most of these corpses had cultivation levels of the third and fourth levels before they died of normal lifespan exhaustion.

Chu Zheng obtained a lot of precious elixirs from the scattered medicine residues and waste pills.

A considerable part of them were of the fourth and fifth levels, and a small part of the sixth-level elixirs were of great use to the Divine Infant and even the powerful in the Divine Transformation Realm.

The fourth-level elixir can be repaired in just two or three days with Chu Zheng's current repair level.

For an ordinary alchemist, it would take at least several months to collect the elixir for such a furnace of elixir, and there was no guarantee that it could be refined.

In comparison, Chu Zheng didn't know how much effort he had saved in this process, which was equivalent to sitting back and enjoying the fruits of others' labor.

Soon, within half a day, Chu Zheng had swept the entire Xianzong ruins clean. He did not find anything too precious, but he also gained a lot.

He did not stay for too long, turned back to the Dao Palace, used up the refreshed repair times, and then began to explore again.

In less than ten days, several nearby golden areas were swept away by Chu Zheng.

He obtained a lot of damaged magic weapons, the most precious of which was a half-man-high golden bow.

[Falling Star Bow (Level 7/Incomplete): A top-grade semi-immortal treasure, the bowstring has been pulled apart, the bow body is cracked, the immortal pattern has been broken, and the materials are missing. You cannot repair it with your ability (details)]

[Details: A fairy treasure with extremely amazing power. One arrow can drop a star, ten arrows can shoot the moon, a hundred arrows can penetrate the sun, and a thousand arrows can be combined into one. It can kill real immortals. Currently lacking materials: seventh-level monster blood, seventh-level true dragon spine, and immortal pattern engraving method. ]

The Falling Star Bow was found by Chu Zheng in a thousand-mile canyon. It is more like a cut left by a sword than a canyon. Even today, it still has murderous intent.

With Chu Zheng's current physique, he can feel a chill when walking in that canyon, as if he was facing the ultimate blow of an unknown strongman hundreds of thousands of years ago.

This sealed area must have experienced extremely tragic killing and fighting.

Chu Zheng looked at the black areas from a distance. In one of them, he sensed some evil spirits. Although it was very slight, it was definitely evil spirits.

Chu Zheng could not confirm why the ancient supreme immortal king wanted to seal off the world in front of him, and whether it was related to these evil spirits.

However, one thing is known, the sealed area should not have a passage to the evil demon world.

Otherwise, after nearly a million years, this secret realm would have been eroded.

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In the blink of an eye, time flies, and more than a month has passed.

In the Taoist Palace, Chu Zheng used up all the repair times refreshed today with some trepidation.

The moment the golden body was repaired, a burst of clear air rushed into Chu Zheng's mind, and the mighty divine sound kept echoing, coming from the distant void.

The prompt on the panel soon sounded.

[Record of the True Tribulation of the Ten Thousand Worlds (Level 10): Daozu passed down the law, and after experiencing the tribulation of the ten thousand worlds, one can cultivate the Daluo Jinxian fruit position. 】

Tenth level! And it is a complete tenth level spell!

Chu Zheng took a breath of cool air, and even before he could digest the complicated information in his mind, he suddenly opened his eyes.

Looking at the repaired residual image, he was suddenly stunned.

The appearance of this Taoist ancestor seemed familiar.

After looking at it for a while, he was slightly surprised, turned his hand to take out the sun wheel mirror, and hung it in front of him.

Looking at the face reflected in the mirror, Chu Zheng raised his head again and glanced at the statue. For a moment, he felt a chill on his back and his hair stood up.

The statue looked more like it than the first time just now...

Wow——

Just as he was stunned, an evil wind rolled in from outside the temple gate. For a moment, Chu Zheng's ears were full of the clanging sound of rolling and colliding sand and stones.

With Chu Zheng's current cultivation, he could not see the scene in front of him clearly. The wind and sand even blocked his mind.

When he opened his eyes again, everything in front of him had returned to its original state.

There was no tile on the top of the head, the beams and pillars were broken, and the red rays of light shone in, illuminating the dusty altar.

Only half of the statue enshrined on the altar remained, and the bottom was full of dust.

If it weren't for the Eternal True Tribulation Treasure Record in his mind, Chu Zheng would even doubt whether he had a dream.

He activated his spiritual eyes and looked at the statue again.

[Incomplete statue (zero level/incomplete): An unknown statue, the remaining traces have been completely erased, and it is impossible to trace it back and repair it. ]

This...

Chu Zheng tried his best to calm the waves in his heart, but after a while, his heart was still beating like a drum. He had no idea what had happened.

The Taoist ancestor blessed him, and then everything returned to the way it was when he first came, as if someone had reversed time and space.

The statue in front of him couldn't even be repaired a second time.