Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 184 Arrangements for Training Future Generations

In the original timeline, the Immortal Emperor was the founder of the Primordial Era, and Liang Yu also intended to arrange it that way this time.

Once he, Lingbao Tianzun, Daode Tianzun, Mingzun, and Yuanshi Tianzun take advantage of the opening of the path to immortality to clear all the forbidden zones of life and officially complete the ascension array, they will end the mythological era and disappear from the mortal world.

Before they disappear, they leave behind legends of ascending to immortality, inspiring those who follow to strive harder. As for themselves, they naturally focus on exploring the path to immortality in the mortal world, and, in very rare cases, acting as a last resort.

The Immortal Emperor will be born in this new era, competing with the reincarnated self-severed supreme beings to ultimately determine the sole victor, who will become the key figure symbolizing the beginning of a new era.

After all, the strength of the first incarnation of the Undying Emperor in the original timeline largely stemmed from his experience of conspiring with other Supreme Beings to assassinate the Emperor. Now that this major event is gone, the Undying Emperor's accumulated power may not be as great. Therefore, Liang Yu needs to focus his efforts on his opponents.

In fact, Liang Yu's desire to preserve his self-severed supreme status was also related to this point. There were some special junior Dao-proving individuals on whom Liang Yu placed high hopes; they had the potential to become key figures influencing the overall situation, so they needed more and stronger opponents to hone their skills and bring their potential to its fullest.

The self-severed supreme beings who reincarnate are the perfect candidates to serve as whetstones. After all, when a Dao Proverb reincarnates and cultivates anew, they become true young Dao Proverbs, and the reincarnation pool designed by Liang Yu and his team will make their physiques even stronger than in their previous lives. If an ordinary Dao Proverb opponent were to face them, tragedy would ensue; only those who are extraordinary among Dao Proverbs could possibly overpower them in one lifetime.

Moreover, these supreme beings have already merged with the Heavenly Heart Mark, so even if they don't merge with it this time, it will have less of an impact on them. Having been given a second chance, they already know about becoming immortals, so compared to that, proving the Dao will come later. Therefore, failure will have less of an impact on their mindset. In any case, they can ascend to immortality without proving the Dao in the mortal realm.

Therefore, these self-reincarnated supreme beings who have been reborn and rebuilt should be used sparingly. Liang Yu wants to place them in the era of those who are superior even among those who have attained enlightenment, and give them a proper boost. For example, the Undying Heavenly Emperor, the Taiyin Human Emperor, the God Emperor, the Demon Emperor, and so on.

When the ancient era arrives, they will directly use immortal artifacts to create beings, since they are not suppressed by the Heavenly Heart Mark, and their success or failure will have a smaller impact.

As for the elixir of immortality taking human form, that will probably have to wait until the post-primordial era. Liang Yu has gone to great lengths to ensure that these future generations receive sufficient training.

Now, he only hopes that when clearing out the restricted areas, there will be more innocent supreme beings who have defected, so that he can accumulate more of these excellent whetstones and build up enough opponents for those few seeds from the ancient era.

Although Liang Yu's actions may seem somewhat inhumane, using his own self-inflicted wounds as a stepping stone, fate's gifts have always come with a price, and Liang Yu's was no exception.

Since they've gone to great lengths to pave the way for their ascension to immortality, they must have to give something in return. Sacrificing the desire to be invincible among their peers to gain the path to immortality—it's a trade-off.

Moreover, in any case, these self-severed supreme beings will realize in their subsequent cultivation that there are several levels among those who attain enlightenment, and that there are vast differences between them, rather than the simple matter they currently believe, as if everyone is roughly the same except for an anomaly like Liang Yu.

Of course, before attaining enlightenment, these gaps are actually compressed infinitely. For most of the time, even Ye Fan, with his potential as a Mortal Immortal, wasn't much different from those with the potential of Great Emperors. However, once they enter the later stages of cultivation, these gaps will become increasingly apparent. In any case, in their subsequent cultivation, these self-proclaimed Supremes will eventually witness the stratification among those who attain enlightenment, so letting them realize this early will help them maintain a calm mindset and steadily pursue immortality.

Liang Yu turned his gaze to the interior of Wuji Immortal Mountain and saw a flame shaped like a phoenix. Under Liang Yu's arrangement, this immortal fire was beginning to shrink and change, showing a faint tendency to transform into an egg.

Of course, the Immortal Fire Phoenix transforms into a sacred spirit, such as a dragon horse, a dragon roaring in the sky, or a spirit emperor, which are manifestations of innate essence. Therefore, it still needs to cultivate after its birth, rather than being directly perfected. Even if it becomes an egg, it will not be like a stone man who has perfected its cultivation, supernatural powers, and laws before being born.

However, now that there is the Immortal Emperor, a true immortal phoenix, as a template, and the Phoenix Clan's precious techniques, the speed at which this Immortal Fire Phoenix transforms into a Holy Spirit will be many times faster.

Liang Yu conjured a rune in his hand, its immortal energy cascading down and swirling with five-colored light, resembling a true divine phoenix or celestial phoenix in flight. This was precisely the supreme treasure technique of the Phoenix Clan, obtained from the Undying Emperor.

At this time, Liang Yu had not yet begun to cultivate this secret technique; he was merely replicating the primordial rune he had obtained from the Undying Emperor. Liang Yu then sent this precious rune into the body of the Immortal Fire Phoenix.

After all, although it was the original Dao fire left behind by the true immortal phoenix, it had lost everything from the past, and it really didn't know this kind of phoenix treasure technique.

Subsequently, Liang Yu moved the Undying Emperor next to the Immortal Fire Phoenix and used array patterns to continuously replicate the Undying Emperor's form. Based on this mystery, he shaped the Immortal Fire Phoenix, making the process of the Immortal Fire Phoenix transforming into a Holy Spirit more perfect.

After Liang Yu made these two improvements, a sense of rebirth became even stronger, with vitality and spirituality bursting forth, as if a phoenix were truly about to be reborn from the ashes.

Finally, it transformed into a phoenix egg, its shell wreathed in flames, shimmering with five-colored divine light, and countless runes of law etched within, exuding a faint celestial aura. Through the eggshell, one could faintly see a divine bird gradually taking shape within, its vast blood essence and immense vitality beginning to emerge.

If this continues, the Holy Spirit formed from the Immortal Fire might only need tens of thousands of years to be born. If the Undying Emperor is born a little later than in the original timeline, then they can be born together.

Liang Yu arranged it this way in the hope that it could compete with the Undying Emperor. He also wanted to see if the Immortal Phoenix Dao Flame, transformed into a Holy Spirit by his supreme methods, could rival the true Immortal Phoenix.

After completing this task, Liang Yu turned his attention back to his cultivation. By this time, Liang Yu had basically mastered the Great Dao of Chaos. Although he could have voluntarily ended this life and begun the next, there was no need for it.

Now, he is about to begin studying the inherited treasured techniques of the Phoenix lineage. This secret technique of the immortal spirit lineage, which excels at nirvana and transformation, will surely be of great help to his path to immortality in the mortal world.

(End of this chapter)