Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 116 Exploring a Strange World
The path to immortality paved by the ancient star Yinghuo is a failed one, irrelevant to both the right time and the right place.

However, if you continue to fight along this path, you will discover a strange world containing the substance of immortality located near this path to immortality, and it maintains an almost constant distance from the human universe.

This strange world is essentially a vast world artificially created by some unknown powerful beings. Their purpose is to use this world to repair the true immortal realm.

But for some reason, the plan was ultimately shelved and not completed. Thus, this vast world gradually evolved into a truly great world, inhabited by countless beings. Furthermore, the existence of multiple Dao-proving beings in this world suggests that there is no restriction on only one person achieving Dao in a single lifetime.

Coincidentally, the Desolate Heavenly Emperor also once wanted to create a small immortal realm to repair the real immortal realm, but he ultimately failed to complete it and remained in the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin, wandering endlessly in the universe.

These two worlds are similar in nature, both contain substances that promote longevity, and both can be used to repair the Immortal Realm. They are both unfinished products and neither has played its final role, which is quite a coincidence.

In the universe of Shrouding the Heavens, if one doesn't embark on the path to immortality at the right time and place, then entering the Immortal Realm requires first transiting through a strange world. Furthermore, a very small number of people can even cultivate into true immortals within these strange worlds.

Therefore, although the path to immortality on the ancient star Yinghuo is not a true path to immortality, the strange world it leads to is a true path to immortality. From this perspective, it seems that the path to immortality on Yinghuo can also be considered real.

However, this path to true immortality is fraught with difficulties. To enter the strange world, most aspiring cultivators clearly lack the necessary strength. Even if they did have the strength, they might not be able to find the easier point to break through.

Even if one manages to enter the strange world, it still requires the combined efforts of three mortal immortals and the correct coordinates to enter the immortal realm.

Therefore, this road also has demanding conditions.

However, this was the path to immortality that Liang Yu had been planning. This path required not only achieving the special status of a Mortal Immortal, but also bringing enough helpers with him into the Immortal Realm.

While he could choose other paths to immortality, he could only enter them alone. Moreover, if he wanted to become an Immortal King, or even higher, in the shortest possible time, he needed to become a Mortal Immortal with greater potential.

Now, he placed his hopes on the Celestial Venerable of Morality and the Celestial Venerable of Spiritual Treasure, hoping they could also successfully traverse the mortal realm to become immortals. This would create three mortal immortals who would meet the requirements for entering the immortal realm.

Moreover, he has two backup candidates: one is the Underworld Lord, and the other is the Emperor Lord who has not yet been born.

Both of them are capable of traversing the mortal path to immortality on their own, which is essentially a guarantee. Although the former requires an excessively long waiting period, Liang Yu's help can accelerate the process.

As for the latter, he only needed to ascertain whether the Emperor's problem stemmed from his own actions or from being corrupted by dark forces. The Emperor's path to immortality in the mortal realm was none of his concern.

If that doesn't work, then we'll have to wait until the ancient times, when the Undying Emperor and the God Emperor arrive. But those two are quite problematic.

If the Undying Emperor didn't rely on the flesh and blood of other Dao-proving beings for his Nirvana, could he still traverse the mortal path to immortality? The God Emperor's transformation is far off; when will he finally arrive? After all, Ye Fan has already been born while he's still asleep, perhaps even having slept his way to another world.

If all else fails, then we'll have to wait for the more ruthless figures like Wu Shi Ye Fan. But that would take far too long.

Of course, if Liang Yu can cultivate to the level of a Celestial King during this long period of time, then he won't need anyone else's help. He can simply go and repair the Celestial Realm by himself, and then come back to recruit others.

However, speaking of the Emperor, in the original timeline, he led his entire sect to ascend to immortality and entered the path of immortality. Ultimately, he likely stumbled upon the strange world from a rather obscure angle. But just as the Ascension Cauldron broke through the world's barrier, someone from the strange world intervened, wedging the cauldron in the middle and leaving the Emperor unable to advance or retreat. Only then did the Eternal Heavenly Venerable, the Prison Suppressor Emperor, the Undying Heavenly Emperor, and others launch a sneak attack on the Emperor.

So, who was the person who stopped the Emperor from entering the strange world? Obviously, there is a high probability that he was the ally of the Immortal Emperor in the strange world, the one others jokingly called the "Soy Sauce Mortal Immortal".

Although this person doesn't even have a name and doesn't have much prestige, he is indeed a mortal immortal, one of the top seven masters in both the Heaven and Earth worlds.

Perhaps because the strange world where longevity substances exist is too comfortable, this mortal immortal is not only significantly weaker than the others who were swept out of the mortal world, but also has a very slow cultivation progress.

After all, when the Emperor Venerable attacked the strange world, he was able to intervene, which meant his strength was already far greater than that of ordinary Dao Provers. Although he might not have the combat power of a Heavenly Emperor, he was definitely much stronger than the Undying Emperor who had not yet attained Dao at that time.

For millions of years afterward, this soy sauce fairy in the strange world continued his normal cultivation.

However, by the end of the Ancient Era, despite having cultivated for millions of years, he was unable to defeat the Great Emperor Wushi, who did not even have the Wushi Bell, which is indeed difficult to assess.

Although the Immortal Emperor, who has lived for millions of years, is on par with the Great Emperor Wushi, he has spent most of his time in Nirvana, which is no different from self-imposed captivity. He may not even have been active for one-tenth of the time.

Therefore, he actually cultivated for at most tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years longer than Emperor Wushi.

Furthermore, the Immortal Emperor's Nirvana was achieved using the flesh and blood of those who had attained enlightenment but were weaker than himself, so it's normal that his combat power increase was limited under such circumstances. Therefore, although his potential is not as great as Wushi's, it's not that much different.

However, there is another possibility: that after the Great Emperor Wushi entered that world, he did not clash with him, but rather the Undying Emperor entered and successfully persuaded him to join forces against the Great Emperor Wushi. By then, the Great Emperor Wushi had made considerable progress and could therefore barely fight two opponents at once.

But regardless of the situation, it shows that he is still somewhat inferior to the Immortal Emperor and Wushi.

Liang Yu's exploration of the strange world was essentially a way of sensing the existence of this person. After all, if the other party was powerful but uncooperative, wouldn't his future ascension plan just be sending them to their doom? He would need to find a sufficiently strong person to go to that world and oversee things first.

However, if the other party is willing to cooperate, then things will be much easier.

Under Liang Yu's earth-shattering attack, a hole was opened in the strange world, and he successfully came face to face with the strange world cultivators who had been alerted.

In that instant, Liang Yu immediately realized that the strongest among them, the one who would become the "Soy Sauce Immortal" in later generations, had only reached the Quasi-Heavenly Emperor level at this moment, at most comparable to his first incarnation. Therefore, tens of thousands of years later, he would probably find it difficult to reach the Heavenly Emperor level.

The cultivators in this strange world were utterly astonished. Even immortals in the mortal realm couldn't return to the human world, demonstrating the immense strength of its barriers. Therefore, it was impossible for the cultivators of this strange world to perceive the existence of the human realm.

Therefore, they were utterly shocked when they discovered that there were other worlds. Of course, what shocked them the most was that, despite being in a barren, lifeless world devoid of any life-giving substances, there existed a being of unimaginable power.

Whether it's entering this realm or ruling it, it's effortless for the other side, and our side is powerless to stop them.

(End of this chapter)