Above the Great Dao

The True God sat amidst the cosmos, majestic and boundless. When he opened his eyes, it was daytime, his pupils ablaze, illuminating nature.

When he closed his eyes, night fell. The vertical eye on his forehead would then slowly open, casting a dim light in all directions, piercing through the veil of night.

As twilight began to fall, strange and curious things awakened under the moonlight, making it very dangerous to be outside.

At this time, those outdoors needed to find a safe place to hide before darkness set in, otherwise, they risked their very lives.

The sky gradually turned a deeper shade of red—a sign that "the sun was setting"!

The True King's Tomb, the Ghost God Domain.

The Sheep-Horned Man, who was a guardian beast of the tomb, looked up at the increasingly red sky, squinting his eyes, seemingly lost in thought.

"Big brother, why did you let that human boy go?" a colossal guardian beast awakened and growled in anger.

It was over two zhang tall, wrapped in fierce flames, with the form of a lion, a horn on its head, and wings on its back, ferociously brave.

The other guardian beasts also voiced their dissatisfaction, venting their discontent.

The Sheep-Horned Man allowed them to vent before he sneered, "Do you think I didn't want to squash him? That little rascal, having caused a mess, would always run here, seeking the shelter of the True King's might to shield him from calamities. Had it been before, he would have died a thousand times over! However, he has a formidable grandfather."

He sighed, then sharply changed his tone, "His grandfather is indeed powerful, as you all have seen. He once burst into the True King's Tomb, and we trapped him for nine days and nights. Yet, what happened? He still managed to steal a scroll of funerary scriptures and left with ease."

The other guardian beasts fell silent.

The Sheep-Horned Man, full of doubt, said, "He stole the Water and Fire Refining secret technique, which is the way to cultivate into a Corpse Resolving Immortal. I wonder what he wanted it for."

Someone uttered, "But, shouldn't that guy be old and close to death?"

The Sheep-Horned Man looked in the direction Chen Shi had left, speaking indifferently, "Perhaps he is already dead. Last time I saw him from a distance, he didn't look like a living person. Did he take Water and Fire Refining to become a Corpse Resolving Immortal?"

One guardian beast said, "The boy we just saw, he didn't look like a person either. He had no vitality about him..."

It had not finished speaking when a strange force surged, and the guardian beasts involuntarily turned to stone.

Meanwhile, Chen Shi rushed out of the mountains, heading straight for Huangpo Village.

In the sky, the two fiery suns were gradually being enveloped in darkness. The Outer Heaven True God had already closed his eyes, and the streaming fires in the sky slowly extinguished.

Gradually, a glamorous moonlight shone from the brow of the True God.

The moonlight, like silver, sprinkled upon the Earth.

At the same time, a mysterious force rapidly revived under the moonlight across the entire West Bull New Continent. Every household closed their doors tightly and hung up Peach Talismans.

From deep within the woods came eerie sounds, like the wailing of ghosts.

In the underbrush, a huge head, like a deflated balloon, began to rise slowly. Its facial features twisted, the head of half an acre in size inflated slowly, becoming three-dimensional and turning to gaze at Chen Shi in the moonlight.

That giant face cracked an odd smile, drifting ethereally toward the youth.

To such large heads, the grandfather called them "Evil."

Not all Evils were large heads, but rather sinister beings that emerged at night, wandering about, vanishing before sunrise.

To encounter one meant certain death.

Quite eerie.

At this life-or-death moment, Chen Shi swallowed the last piece of Spiritual Jerky, activated his Cultivation Technique, and starlight from the sky drew towards him, converging into a small shrine behind his head.

Wrapped in Divine Power, the shrine greatly increased his speed, and he drew ever closer to Huangpo Village!

The Cultivation Technique he used was not the one taught in the private school.

The private school's Cultivation Technique was called the Heavenly Heart Righteous Qi Technique; after having his Divine Embryo severed, Chen Shi also attempted to practice the Heavenly Heart Righteous Qi Technique but found that without the Divine Embryo, the True Qi he cultivated was like a rootless tree, constantly dissipating, unable to stay contained.

The cultivation technique he activated was precisely the one from the stele in the True King's Tomb, named Three Light Righteous Qi Technique!

The so-called "Three Lights" refer to sunlight, moonlight, and starlight.

It said on the stele to collect the three lights of the sun, moon, and stars to cultivate one's own Righteous Qi.

Among these three lights, the sunlight and moonlight were the most fierce, while the starlight was the weakest.

However, Chen Shi could never gather the sunlight or moonlight; he could only refine starlight Righteous Qi.

Chen Shi had visited the True King's Tomb numerous times, not only to borrow the power of the tomb to break the influence of the Ghost God Domain at the kiln factory but also to acquire the complete Three Light Righteous Qi Technique!

Although he still hadn't succeeded this time, he had memorized most of the Three Light Righteous Qi Technique and could now smoothly activate this cultivation technique!

"The cultivation technique from the True King's Tomb truly is extraordinary, far more powerful than the Heavenly Heart Righteous Qi Technique from the private school!"

Chen Shi activated the starlight Righteous Qi, took a step, and covered a distance of about ten feet with lightning speed, with Huangpo Village already in sight.

This village housed a hundred or two hundred families, with the village center being dominated by an ancient, towering tree, sprawling and majestic, as large as a small hill.

The villagers of Huangpo Village built their homes around the ancient tree as the core, with houses arranged in concentric circles, as many as five layers.

At this moment, moonlight cascaded down to the earth, the ancient tree's branches and leaves swayed, drawing in moonlight; the limbs danced like spirit snakes, enchantingly beautiful.

At the entrance of the village stood a tall figure, his face shrouded in darkness, as if welcoming Chen Shi's return.

"Grandfather!"

Chen Shi was overjoyed in his heart, his speed quickened, and as he arrived in front of the tall, elderly man, he suddenly felt the air temperature around him plummet, a chill sweeping over him.

Then, the last piece of spiritual jerky's spiritual power was exhausted, and the shrine behind his head began to wobble, unable to be steadied by the activation of the Three Light Righteous Qi.

In the end, the shrine collapsed, True Qi dispersed, and turned into nothingness.

Chen Shi felt his power rapidly fading and couldn't help feeling disheartened.

Even the cultivation technique from the True King's Tomb couldn't enable him to cultivate normally.

"It's time to go home and take your medicine," Grandfather said, looking towards the giant floating head that approached.

"I know."

Chen Shi looked up, trying to see Grandfather's face, but the moonlight cast shadows on the old man's face, making it indistinct.

It had been quite some time since he last saw Grandfather's face clearly.

Speaking of which, it was strange that he could smell a faint foul odor around Grandfather. It was a peculiar scent, like that of rotting flesh, yet different from the spoiled meat smell Chen Shi was accustomed to.

He wanted to find the source of this smell, but there was also a medicinal scent on Grandfather's body, which greatly diluted the foul odor.

The grandfather and grandson walked towards the interior of Huangpo Village, and along the way, household after household pulled their playing children back into their homes and firmly closed their doors upon seeing them.

Chen Shi surveyed the houses on both sides and saw that every family had oil lamps lit. The silhouettes of the homeowners projected onto the window lattices, their occupants clearly stealthily observing them.

"Good people don't live long; that disaster has come back," someone whispered in the dark.

"Have they also noticed Grandfather's abnormality?"

Hearing the villagers' comments, Chen Shi felt uneasy, "They wouldn't harm Grandfather, would they?"

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