Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 172 The Immortal Artifact, the Boundless Dao Stele
The black Wuji Immortal Mountain was hidden in the void, with countless chaotic energies escaping slightly and enveloping the mountain, making it look like a divine mountain and fairyland born in the creation of the world.

Since Liang Yu deciphered the core laws of these wondrous places using the Origin Technique, he has also developed a peculiar connection with Wuji Immortal Mountain. However, it is not a symbiotic relationship like that between the Eternal Heavenly Venerable and the Immortal Tomb or the Prison Suppressor Emperor and the Underworld, but a higher level, where he completely dominates Wuji Immortal Mountain.

Liang Yu's own Dao changes will cause Wuji Immortal Mountain to evolve in the corresponding direction. In other words, Liang Yu actively changes the evolution process of Wuji Immortal Mountain through the evolution of his own Dao, making it into the form he desires.

Of course, this was also because when Liang Yu began to transform the Wuji Immortal Mountain, it was far from being fully formed, and its core laws were naturally not yet stable. At this time, the immortal mountain was deeply imprinted with Liang Yu's own mark, achieving control and resonance.

The core laws of Wuji Immortal Mountain converged at a place that was originally just a treasure cave within the mountain, where the Immortal Tear Green Gold Emperor was conceived in later generations.

However, back in Liang Yu's previous life, he had already transformed this precious site into the Yin-Yang Immortal Pool, floating on the surface of the earth. In his previous life, Liang Yu possessed the Yin-Yang Dao Body, using the Dao of Yin and Yang to achieve the unification of all laws. Therefore, a Yin-Yang diagram faintly appeared in the pool water, dividing it into two halves that evolved from each other.

But now, the Yin and Yang Immortal Pools are filled with chaotic energy, and the water that was originally divided into Yin and Yang halves has gradually begun to merge into one, evolving towards a Chaotic Immortal Pool. This means that Liang Yu is getting closer and closer to the realm of "All Laws Return to One, Chaos Arises".

After all, Liang Yu, in his fourth incarnation, had already lived for 30,000 years, and he had naturally begun to achieve significant results. In fact, the Yin and Yang energies emanating from his body had begun to merge into one, although they were still somewhat chaotic and had not yet been completely unified.

In Liang Yu's own perception, he is still at his peak in this life and has not yet begun to decline. Therefore, he should have enough time to complete this fruition.

At this moment, Liang Yu's gaze was fixed intently on the center of the pond. The lotus seed was still undergoing its rebirth, but its vitality and spirituality were growing stronger, as if it were about to break through its shell. Of course, this was just an illusion; it was still quite far from truly succeeding.

Suddenly, a Dao stele with a dragon's head and snake patterns burst forth from the belly of Wuji Immortal Mountain, and wisps of immortal light emanated from it. It actually transformed into a true immortal artifact!
"Master, I've finally succeeded!" The Boundless Dao Stele could not hide its joy, radiating an astonishing aura. However, due to the obstruction of the great formation, its message did not reach the outside world.

"You bastard! What have you become?" The Qiankun Creation Tower roared in fury, charging forward and slamming into the Boundless Dao Stele, sending it soaring into the sky.

It said fiercely, "Master is still in the midst of his cultivation. If you make such a fuss and disturb his practice, can you bear the consequences? Besides, Master has distinguished guests present. Isn't this extremely impolite!"

Wuliang Daobei also suddenly came to his senses and hurriedly said, "Brother Ta, please calm down. I was carried away by my own pride and almost made a big mistake. Please forgive me."

The Qiankun Creation Tower sneered, "It's good that you know your mistake. However, congratulations on becoming a celestial artifact."

The Boundless Dao Stele said, "Thank you, Brother Ta."

After saying this, they fell from the sky and landed in the fairy mountain.

Other immortal artifacts, such as the Desolate Tower, the Immortal Bell, and the Bronze Immortal Palace, naturally showed no reaction. After all, apart from the Desolate Tower, which had cooperated with Liang Yu long ago, the Immortal Bell and the Bronze Immortal Palace were spoils of war that Liang Yu had seized from his enemies. It was hard to say whether their influence could compare to that of the Boundless Dao Stele, which had voluntarily followed him, let alone the Qiankun Creation Tower, a treasure he had personally crafted. As for the Desolate Tower, it couldn't be bothered with them. Over the years, Liang Yu had used source techniques combined with array patterns to set up a peculiar array, allowing them to be powered by these patterns and thus maintain a fully rejuvenated state without any burden for a long time. Therefore, they were all taking advantage of this time to strengthen themselves, and even attempted to cultivate voluntarily.

That's right, it's cultivation; these immortal artifacts are also cultivating. Although this method of absorbing the primordial energy of heaven and earth to enhance their own foundation and even imprinting laws within their bodies is not perfect, it is enough to allow them to undergo some minor evolution.

This secret technique actually benefits from the "Soldier's Secret" and the "Boundless Dao Stele".

The Boundless Dao Stele can be considered the supreme treasure formed from the life's blood and sweat of the Boundless Heavenly Venerable, a miracle that even if he were to live again, he could not replicate. Because of this, it is not like a magic weapon, but rather like a life form similar to a magic weapon, its spirituality far surpassing ordinary ultimate divine weapons, and even slightly inferior to immortal artifacts.

Therefore, after Liang Yu conducted in-depth research on the Boundless Dao Stele, he combined the Secret of the Military Character with the Boundless Heavenly Power of the Boundless Heavenly Venerable to create a secret technique that allows magical artifacts to cultivate themselves and strengthen themselves. However, the efficiency of other immortal artifacts cultivating through this secret technique is extremely low, and the improvement is not significant.

However, this secret technique was a perfect complement to the Boundless Dao Stele, almost as if it were tailor-made for it. It began to evolve autonomously using this technique, steadily progressing towards becoming a celestial artifact. This also demonstrates that the Boundless Dao Stele is indeed special; in some ways, it is even rarer than celestial artifacts.

For tens of thousands of years, Liang Yu sealed the Boundless Dao Stele inside the Wuji Immortal Mountain and set up a special formation to slowly refine the weapon and accelerate its evolution.

Liang Yu's Origin Technique has reached the level of a Heaven and Earth Lord, so he can also refine immortal artifacts through the Wuji Immortal Mountain like the Underworld Lord in the original timeline, and he might even consume fewer ancient life stars.

However, Liang Yu was clearly not the kind of person who would squeeze every last drop of life essence from ancient stars just to refine weapons. Therefore, although he used a similar method, he kept its power at a moderate level to ensure that Wuji Immortal Mountain itself would not be damaged while also minimizing its impact on the outside world.

This method is certainly much more efficient than the Kunlun Immortal Mountain's method of nurturing immortal bells, but it does not cause too much damage to the outside world.

Because his mastery of Origin Arts was becoming increasingly profound, he could sense the gradual weakening of the human universe. Although the cycle was very long—long enough that it would be difficult to be affected without becoming an immortal—Liang Yu could still perceive it. Therefore, he adopted a more natural approach, avoiding any extreme measures.

However, under this combination of internal and external factors, the Boundless Dao Stele, a treasure for proving the Dao that had no master, actually evolved into a celestial artifact.

It should be noted that none of the nine immortal golden pagodas that Liang Yu himself forged have been transformed into immortal artifacts.

Therefore, while deeply moved, the Wuliang Dao Stele was also extremely grateful to Liang Yu. It could be said that, apart from the Wuliang Tianzun who created it, the Wuji Tianzun was the person it revered most.

(End of this chapter)