Covering the Sky: I am the King of Men, and I rule over the rise and fall of all heavens.

Chapter 15 Aftermath Part 2

After a moment's hesitation, Jiang Bai extracted the remaining Supreme Bone Blood and refined it all into Immortal Essence.

In addition to the essence of Mu Ming Supreme and the essence condensed from the sacrifices of all living beings over the years, Jiang Bai has collected a Longevity Immortal Essence the size of an infant's fist.

Jiang Bai sensed that the longevity power contained within was already almost a third of the amount in the elixir of immortality.

That's enough to allow any living being below the level of an Emperor to be reborn.

It's still a long way from allowing the Supreme Being to live a lifetime.

"And it's only a temporary reprieve; true transformation requires enlightenment on one's own," Jiang Bai sighed.

Everyone's path to immortality in the mortal world is different, and there will be differences in combat power after they are completed.

Like the Immortal Emperor who cultivated for millions of years, only to be blocked by the Two Incarnations of Wushi in the end.

For example, the Immortal Emperor and the native immortals of the strange world joined forces to fight against Wushi, but they were still blocked outside the world of the Shrouding the Heavens universe.

This fully demonstrates that there are also significant differences in combat strength on the path to immortality in the mortal world.

Jiang Bai believed the reason lay in the "way of life".

The strange world possesses a small amount of immortality-enhancing substances, and the native immortals there most likely achieved immortality by utilizing its power.

The Undying Emperor is a being from the Immortal Realm, and his path is one of being born from the blood of an emperor. From his sneak attack on Ye Fan and the Fighting Saint Emperor, we can infer that he has most likely been living by a single method.

Therefore, they were not as good as Ye Fan and Wu Shi in their understanding of the Great Dao, which is why they were beaten to a pulp in one-on-one combat.

Like Ye Fan, apart from the one life he lived using the elixir of immortality, he had different insights into the Great Dao in each of his other lives, which is why his combat power became stronger and stronger.

After becoming a mortal immortal, he can directly shatter the Undying Emperor.

Jiang Bai, however, did not want to be among the weakest of the immortals in the mortal world.

"I also want to live a different life, gain new insights in each life, and finally become a powerful being among the immortals in the mortal world."

With unwavering faith, Jiang Bai took over the task of evolving the Chaos Blood from the God of Faith.

In this evolutionary process, we continuously come to understand the mysteries of chaotic entities.

After all, Jiang Bai didn't have Ye Fan's luck in getting a granddaughter with a naturally born Chaotic Body, so that he could comprehend the mysteries of the Chaotic Body and complete his evolution.

By believing in God, I will continue to fulfill the wishes of all beings and gather the power of faith.

Five thousand years have passed in the blink of an eye, and Jiang Bai is now nine thousand seven hundred years old.

He felt that he had become the new master of Mount Sumeru, the second human emperor here.

In the past five thousand years, whenever a sage was born on Mount Sumeru, people would come to worship him.

When a new leader takes over, they will come to inform him.

This made Jiang Bai feel a little embarrassed, so he wrote a few more scriptures for the Buddhist sect and also gave them some pointers on how to collect the power of faith.

During these five thousand years, Jiang Bai also had a conversation with the Amitabha Buddha, who occasionally awoke from his slumber.

It was constructed from the relics of Amitabha Buddha, representing an alternative path to immortality explored by Amitabha Buddha.

According to Amitabha Buddha's design, his faith only needs to continuously collect faith power from afar to maintain his physical body.

The primordial spirit resides in the relics of Amitabha Buddha and sleeps there, achieving a strange kind of immortality.

Unfortunately, my faith in Amitabha Buddha prevented me from making any progress in my spiritual cultivation. I had to remain in a deep sleep, and the moment I fully awoke was the moment I would completely perish.

Even so, Jiang Bai couldn't help but sigh, "Amitabha is indeed a genius. Every time I learn about him, I'm amazed."

At the age of 9,700, Jiang Bai grew his first strand of white hair. Upon seeing it, Jiang Bai mobilized his own power of faith and activated his faith healing technique to make up for the deficiency and dispel the white hair.

For the past five thousand years, Jiang Bai has been evolving the Chaos Blood, comprehending the Chaos Dao that has proliferated within it, and comparing and deducing it with the Furnace Nourishing Hundred Scriptures within his body.

But he didn't give up using the power of faith to maintain his health, and over time, he reaped many benefits.

One crucial experiment was conducted: if the origin was injured and healed with the power of faith, would the origin be able to rebuild itself and expand again?

Following the path of cultivation, each time one breaks through and rebuilds, there should be significant progress.

The test subject was a demonic beast that Jiang Bai's god, I, caught casually while trading for a minor cultivator in a certain place.

As it turned out, it was effective. Under Jiang Bai's continuous experiments, the monster's essence expanded and its lifespan was extended.

As is well known, the lifespan of different organisms varies, especially among organisms in the same realm.

Taking the Great Emperor as an example, the lifespan of an ordinary Great Emperor is around 12,000 to 13,000. But someone like Jiang Bai, who underwent Nirvana before becoming an Emperor, has a much longer lifespan, which can reach around 15,000 to 16,000.

However, the lifespan of some special races' emperors, like those supreme beings who attained enlightenment through holy spirits in the memories of the Eternal Celestial Venerable, is generally around 15,000 to 16,000 years.

In the original novel, Ye Fan attained the Dao with a sacred body, and his lifespan was directly increased to 26,000.

After attaining enlightenment, the Chaos Body King Bo still possessed a vast amount of blood and energy even at the age of 20,000.

After a thousand years of research, Jiang Bai successfully created a set of health preservation techniques that use the power of faith to nourish the source of life and heal injuries.

However, Jiang Bai would not directly destroy his own origin for experiments, as that would be utterly morbid. Instead, he waited until now, when his blood and energy began to decline, his body went downhill, and his origin began to decay, before using the secret techniques of faith to restore and heal himself.

As long as it can be maintained, it can indirectly achieve the effect of prolonging life.

Perhaps this secret technique can extend one's lifespan by several hundred years.

There was a reason why Jiang Bai left the Amitabha Buddha courtyard this time. Otherwise, with his lack of relatives and connections and the meager interpersonal relationships he had with the Buddhist community, there would have been no use in him leaving.

He can't exactly maintain peace in the universe, can he? After all, he's currently the biggest mercenary in the universe.

Countless forces have eliminated rival forces or invaders by selling their resources to him.

Jiang Bai's reason for coming out was quite simple: during the process of evolving the Chaos Blood, he suddenly thought of something.

One of the tenets of Amitabha Buddha's Buddhist belief is reincarnation. Amitabha Buddha himself completed his spiritual reincarnation through the power of this belief.

Does this also mean that Jiang Bai can add the setting of "the Human King is the Chaos Human King for three lifetimes" to his faith power, thereby accelerating the evolution of the Chaos Body?

The process of gathering the essence of all beings through the power of faith and evolving the Chaos Blood is too slow.

The process of nurturing the Hundred Scriptures in the furnace was not bad, but as it continued to nurture, it began to distort Jiang Bai's Great Dao of Human King, causing it to evolve into the Great Dao of Chaos.

No matter how Jiang Bai suppressed it, or even tried to use the Human King Dao to control the evolved Chaos Dao, it was useless; the opponent simply accepted it.

Jiang Bai was stunned when he realized this; it was too lewd.

The world of Shrouding the Heavens is not about any particular physique or cultivation path.

Just like Ye Fan, who cultivates the Heavenly Emperor's Path and walks the path of invincibility, you can't say that he was a Chaotic Body in one of his previous lives and then switched to cultivating the Chaotic Path.

Therefore, Jiang Bai decisively stopped nurturing the Hundred Scriptures, just like Ye Fan in the original work. He firmly believed that his own Great Dao should not be distorted, as that would be wrong.

After all, what Jiang Bai wanted was the Chaotic Body, especially the process of comprehending and transforming into the Chaotic Body, not the Chaotic Dao. Therefore, he still needed to study how to accelerate the evolution of the Chaotic Blood, thoroughly understand the Chaotic Dao, and directly transform into the Chaotic Body.

(End of this chapter)