Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 109 The Netherworld Scripture, the Source Scripture
I, Liang Yu, actually completed my two major tasks during my lifetime when I was 40,000 years old. Therefore, upon his passing, I returned directly to my original form.

Over the next eight thousand years, the original Liang Yu studied the secrets of the character "皆" and, incidentally, perfected his own Daoist arts in preparation for his transformation; while the Daoist Liang Yu began to study the Underworld together with the Underworld Lord.

After all, the underworld is also a wondrous place. Having successfully deciphered several other wondrous places, the difficulty of deciphering the underworld was greatly reduced.

Of course, this time it wasn't me, Liang Yu, who was in charge, but rather the Underworld Lord. After all, he was the one who founded the Underworld, and he was the one who found this extraordinary place.

The underworld, where the netherworld is located, is countless times more vast than the stars. When Liang Yu came here last time, although he observed it with his divine eye, he still only glanced at it and failed to see its true nature.

This time, Liang Yu was finally able to properly study this place.

After parting this vast and boundless underworld, Liang Yu and the Underworld Lord both saw countless ancient corpses buried within, their origins unknown.

Dao Wo Liang Yu couldn't help but sigh, "Just how many people are buried here? Is it the entire universe, or just an era?"

The Underworld Lord sighed, "Everyone says that I discovered this place, but that's not true. I only became a living being through this place, but my body was already here. So, it was actually the Tribulation-Crossing Heavenly Venerable who discovered this place."

Liang Yu remained silent. The path to immortality in the mortal world, relying on the Reincarnation Seal, was to some extent modified from the methods practiced by the burial priests in the burial ground. Could this place, as the Netherworld Lord's place of communication, be part of the former burial ground? After all, Cao Yusheng was once buried in the burial ground.

However, whether it is true or not is irrelevant now. After all, countless years have passed, the laws of heaven and earth have changed drastically, and the core laws and Dao traces of this place have undergone considerable changes, transforming it into a wondrous place.

In other words, the underworld today is different from the burial ground of the past.

For the two of them, studying the underworld was much easier than studying the immortal tombs, because the Underworld Lord had already accumulated knowledge in this area.

Firstly, this place is related to the past that the Underworld Lord has been searching for; secondly, digging up graves has indeed become his hobby.

Therefore, under the influence of these two factors, the Underworld Lord had already explored this place many times and conducted in-depth research during the period when he was attaining enlightenment.

So this time they quickly began to comprehend its core principles, which can be considered as getting used to it after a few tries.

This time, in just four thousand years, they have already deciphered the core laws of this Netherworld. Of course, the greatest contributor this time is the Netherworld Lord.

Although he was only conscious for one-tenth of the time, he had already completed nearly one-third of the research process, and he had also made breakthroughs in the main research direction and some major difficulties.

I, Liang Yu, actually only played a supporting role.

Ultimately, the Underworld Lord named this scripture, created based on the core laws and Dao traces of the Underworld, the Underworld Scripture. In fact, his original Underworld Emperor Scripture already contained some of the laws of the Underworld; this version was simply a complete completion.

Afterwards, I, Liang Yu, invited the Prison Emperor to come out, hoping that he could practice this scripture and test its effects.

After all, although the Prison King was not a native race of the Underworld, but an ancient venerable from the outside world who joined the Underworld after severing his own life, he relied on the laws of the Underworld and the Underworld King Scripture to refine himself into a half-Yin-Yang body to prolong his life.

His black blood suggests that he has done extensive research on the native races of the Underworld, otherwise he would not have been able to transform himself into this form.

After learning of Liang Yu's idea, the Prison King naturally agreed. After all, Kunlun Immortal Mountain had begun to recover and could be used as a reincarnation pool in at most ten thousand years, so his time for reincarnation was fast approaching.

There's no point in preserving so much lifespan at this point; all you need to do is ensure you survive the reincarnation process.

Therefore, the Prison Suppressor Emperor still hoped to accumulate more Dao cultivation to prepare for the next life, aiming to obtain a stronger physique as a starting point. After all, the achievements of this life would affect the new body they would conceive after reincarnation. Moreover, he had witnessed the Longevity Celestial Venerable survive for five thousand years by cultivating the Burial Immortal Scripture. Being able to continue cultivating for several thousand years would be a great thing.

Even if his Sendai is damaged and he can't make further progress, his understanding of the Dao can be deeper, and he can also make further progress in modifying his body.

As Liang Yu had predicted, the compatibility between the Prison Suppressor Emperor and this scripture was also very high. Although it was not as good as the Eternal Heavenly Venerable and the Immortal Tomb, it was far superior to the Carefree Heavenly Venerable and the Primordial Ancient Mine. As a result, the Prison Suppressor Emperor had more than four thousand years of existence in the Underworld.

Even the King of Hell hadn't expected that he would enter the realm so quickly, mastering some of the core laws of the Netherworld, thus advancing his Yin-Yang Body to a new level.

The reason for this is that his bloodline, which he studied from the native races of the Underworld, inherently contained the primordial laws of the Underworld. Therefore, after using various methods to modify himself, he had already been thoroughly influenced by the laws and traces of this place.

For a moment, he was reluctant to reincarnate, since the cultivation of this scripture could greatly enhance his half-finished Yin-Yang Body, and might even make him a true Yin-Yang Body.

Unfortunately, his current situation remains unrealized. As long as Sendai remains unrepaired, he will never achieve this goal, and his future will ultimately be bleak.

Therefore, he regained his senses after only a brief moment of distraction and began to study the laws of the underworld as quickly as possible, paving the way for his next life.

However, this is also a strange kind of fate. After all, the Prison Suppressor once impersonated the Underworld Lord and used the Heaven-Reaching Underworld Treasure to ambush the Emperor. After the Eternal Life Heavenly Lord went to the Immortal Tomb, he even resembled the Lord of the Underworld. Now, it seems inexplicably natural that he has a high degree of compatibility with the Underworld.

However, although Liang Yu's Dao has already accomplished so much with the Underworld Lord, this is not the end.

In the midst of these 48,000 years of busy work, Dao Wo Liang Yu and Ming Zun had another crucial gain, which was the Origin Scripture.

Through their research and restoration of these extraordinary places, the two of them gained a full understanding and mastery of the mysteries of nature within them.

As a result, they truly grasped the power of nature's creation and elevated their respective source techniques to a divine level.

The original Source Scripture, though a rare and unorthodox ancient scripture, could at most produce a Source Emperor, essentially a Dao Prover. After all, even the Netherworld Lord who created it was only at this level, and the Source Techniques obtained by later generations were mostly incomplete, thus preventing them from advancing further.

Source techniques, in essence, are secret arts that borrow and manipulate the power of heaven and earth.

The greatest advantage of the Source Technique lies in the fact that the mainstream cultivation methods in the Shrouding the Heavens universe differ significantly from the Source Technique, so most people have no means to counter it. This secret technique thus possesses an advantage that is difficult to suppress.

Through continuous cooperation, practice, and exchange between Liang Yu and Ming Zun, their source techniques reached a higher level.

Thus, they naturally continued to write a new chapter in the Origin Sutra.

Through their study of these extraordinary places, Liang Yu and the Underworld Lord gained a profound understanding of the exquisite wonders of nature. As a result, they naturally developed a deeper appreciation for the power of heaven and earth, and were able to more freely wield this power, even altering the laws of heaven and earth.

This is what is referred to as the Lord of Heaven and Earth in the calculations of the Underworld Lord.

If their previous Origin Technique level was Origin Emperor, then from this moment on, their Origin Technique gradually approached that of Origin Heaven Emperor.

In other words, the so-called Lord of Heaven and Earth is the Heavenly Emperor of the Origin Arts realm. As for how to become an Immortal in the Origin Arts realm, they are completely clueless.

However, according to Liang Yu and Ming Zun's speculation, it may be necessary to start from two aspects: one is to seek outward, gradually control everything in the universe, and even control other worlds; the other is to seek inward, use source techniques to replicate strange lands and various terrains between heaven and earth, condense different divine charms and laws in the body, so that the self can continuously evolve and eventually refine an immortal body.

(End of this chapter)