Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 181 The Reason for Falling to Earth

Although the Emperor's exposure was the result of a struggle between his two personalities, in the eyes of the Immortal Emperor, it was the result of their meticulous planning. It could be said that they, as a group, joined forces to end the mythological era.

In particular, the Immortal Emperor at that time was not even considered to have achieved enlightenment through unorthodox means, yet he participated in plotting against the Emperor Venerable, who was far stronger than ordinary Daoists, and even caused the Heavenly Court, which ruled over all the heavens and myriad realms, to fall. Such accumulation was simply boundless.

At this moment, the Undying Emperor not only had the confidence to prove his Dao, but also had the hope of directly catching up with the Emperor by relying on his immortal phoenix essence.

Therefore, after sealing himself away for ten thousand years, he quickly attained enlightenment upon his rebirth, surpassing Chuan Ying. After all, firstly, Chuan Ying's talent was inferior to his; secondly, Chuan Ying's mind was disturbed by this series of events, making it difficult for him to concentrate on the final leap and successfully attain enlightenment.

Moreover, at that time, the various forbidden zones were busy besieging the remaining forces of the Heavenly Court and were not vigilant against him, someone they had cooperated with before. As a result, the Immortal Emperor seized the opportunity to prove his Dao, and there were hardly any people who could interfere with him.

By the time these supreme beings in the forbidden zones realized that yet another figure like an emperor had been born, the outcome was already decided.

The immortal emperor, having successfully attained enlightenment, proclaimed himself emperor and established an immortal divine dynasty, revered by all races. During his reign, he also conquered forbidden zones like an emperor, becoming invincible throughout the world.

Of course, he also specifically cleansed the ruins of the Heavenly Court and his past betrayal of the Emperor. In this process, he also used the power of faith to create a divine embryo, which transformed into the Immortal Daoist.

But as time passed, the Undying Emperor also felt a sense of urgency. After all, he couldn't break into the Immortal Realm. If things continued like this, he would die in the mortal world before he could return home.

Ultimately, he had no choice but to take a desperate gamble, relying on his racial talents to undergo a rebirth and survive. But this process required nourishment.

Therefore, he set his sights on the Supreme Being of the Forbidden Zone and the Dao Prophets of later generations.

The Undying Emperor pretended to be completely dead, but secretly hid on the path to immortality. Firstly, he was exploring the Immortal Realm and the world that the Emperor had broken through, and secondly, he was concealing himself.

After that, he began to ambush future Daoists, collecting their flesh and blood to transform, and even triggered a massive ancient war of gods, which shattered the Immortal Cauldron and damaged the Desolate Tower.

However, for most of the Primordial and Ancient Eras, the Undying Emperor was in a weakened state of transformation, slumbering in a deep sleep. Therefore, most Dao Prodigies did not actually face this threat; only a few unlucky ones happened to be awakened by the Undying Emperor and became nourishment.

The fake tomb left behind by the Immortal Emperor, who used the ancient tea tree he had enlightened to make a coffin, was created during this process.

It is impossible to know exactly who the victims were during the Immortal Emperor's continuous rebirth. The Yin Emperor and the Sun Emperor may or may not have been involved with him; the Fighting Emperor and the Supreme Emperor were definitely assassinated by him.

Everything was going smoothly. If things continued like this, although the Immortal Emperor's progress on the Mortal Immortal Path would be slow due to the long Nirvana period, he could still slowly become a Mortal Immortal-level expert, unprecedented in the Immortal Realm, just like the God Emperor.

Even if he fails, he has already discovered the existence of this strange world. At worst, he can enter it to cultivate in seclusion and complete the second half of his journey on the path to immortality. At this point, the Undying Emperor can be said to be able to attack or defend as needed.

However, in the later stages of the ancient era, he encountered a formidable opponent: the Great Emperor Wushi. His faith, the Immortal Daoist, was suppressed, and his true form was also found by the Great Emperor Wushi. The two peerless figures in their twilight years then engaged in a standoff that lasted for two thousand years.

Ultimately, the Great Emperor Wushi's lifespan was insufficient, forcing him to enter the strange world first. The Undying Emperor, however, began his transformation once more using the collected flesh and blood. Moreover, it's highly likely that some of this flesh and blood belonged to the Supreme Emperor. After all, the Supreme Emperor was the ruler of the previous tens of thousands of years, a Dao-proving being from the very late Ancient Era, while the Great Emperor Wushi was the last Great Emperor of that era. In such a short span of tens of thousands of years, the Undying Emperor likely wouldn't have had time for a complete Nirvana.

After all, the Immortal Emperor's Nirvana had taken him seventy or eighty thousand years to complete this time, and if he hadn't entered the strange world, who knows how much longer it would have taken. Therefore, for the vast majority of the millions of years before, he was actually in the process of Nirvana in the form of a fleshy ball.

However, the downside of taking shortcuts by relying on racial talent is that even though he lived more than one lifetime than Emperor Wushi, his strength did not differ significantly.

Afterwards, the Nirvana-born Immortal Emperor transformed into a ball of flesh, which was immobilized by the Beginningless Bell left behind by the Great Emperor Wushi, who intended to pull him into a strange world through the back door he had left behind. This plan was completed with the help of Ye Fan and the Azure Emperor.

After entering the strange world, the Undying Emperor joined forces with the native cultivator of the strange world to suppress the Great Emperor Wushi. It wasn't until Ye Fan, who later became the Immortal of the Mortal World, and the Ruthless Man came to the strange world that he finally met his end.

It can be said that the Immortal Emperor's life was indeed full of ups and downs, turbulent and magnificent, filled with intrigue and bloodshed, but also glorious and epic. He initially only wanted to go home, but in the process he made enemies on all sides, and ultimately fell just before he was about to succeed.

After all, his carefully nurtured offspring, Little Fairy Phoenix, is only one step away from becoming an immortal. As long as Little Fairy Phoenix can cross this step, the three of them can join forces to return to the Immortal Realm.

But now, he has been targeted by Liang Yu, and his life is about to undergo a major change.

In fact, Liang Yu's ability to find the Immortal Emperor so quickly was thanks to the Moral Celestial Venerable.

The third incarnation of the Celestial Venerable of Morality once encountered a rift in the Celestial Realm, but even with his utmost effort, he could not enter it. The imprint left by this process was seen by Liang Yu, who had not yet attained enlightenment, and from this he comprehended some supernatural powers.

Although he failed to open it, the Celestial Venerable of Morality still managed to capture the aura within the crack, hoping that when he became stronger in the future, he might be able to find the crack again and try his luck.

And this crack is precisely the crack from which the Immortal Emperor fell to Earth.

Therefore, as soon as the rift appeared, the Celestial Venerable of Morality awoke from his seclusion and notified Liang Yu. Although the two of them knew that they couldn't break through the rift, it did allow them to discover the existence of the Immortal Emperor.

However, thinking about it this way, the Immortal Emperor's fall to the mortal realm is theoretically related to the Moral Celestial Venerable. After all, although the Moral Celestial Venerable didn't successfully penetrate the rift, he still managed to widen it slightly. If he hadn't attacked, the Immortal Emperor might not have fallen in at all.

Liang Yu said, "It seems that the other side of that crack is indeed the Immortal Realm, and a real Immortal Phoenix has actually landed there."

The Celestial Venerable said, "What a pity. I am at a critical stage in comprehending the Elixir of Immortality, so I will leave this Celestial Phoenix to you, my fellow Daoist."

Having said that, he once again entered seclusion. Liang Yu, on the other hand, used his supernatural powers to open a domain gate, bringing the Undying Emperor to the front of the Boundless Immortal Mountain.

(End of this chapter)