Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 186 An Alternative Way to Become an Immortal
The entire process of the Celestial Venerable of Longevity, including his success, was inseparable from Liang Yu's help.

First, the Ancient Scripture of Burial Immortals was jointly created by Liang Yu and the Underworld Lord; second, Liang Yu's Daoist Master, during this process, continuously used source techniques and other means to support the cause, ensuring that the Celestial Lord of Longevity would not fall into eternal silence and become another member buried in the Immortal Tomb.

Moreover, the key to finally breaking the deadlock was, to some extent, the Source Technique. After all, both humans and extraordinary places like the Immortal Tomb are the most exquisite artifacts created by the great power of the universe. And the Source Technique is the key to unlocking the secrets of these extraordinary artifacts.

As for the mysteries of humanity and life, Liang Yu had already fully comprehended this point from the Dao Embryo that appeared out of nothing beneath Thunder Swamp. With these two combined, both the Eternal Heavenly Venerable and the Immortal Tomb were refining materials for him that held little mystery.

Therefore, through his source techniques and supernatural abilities, the Eternal Celestial Venerable and the Immortal Tomb were continuously merged into one as if forging a weapon.

Since it was a weapon, Liang Yu naturally thought of the method of merging the primordial spirit with the Dao weapon. Although the Eternal Life Celestial Venerable had not studied this method in depth, he was not entirely ignorant of it. Therefore, the Eternal Life Celestial Venerable internally adopted an improved version of this method and further integrated it with the Immortal Tomb.

Ultimately, through a coordinated effort from within and without, the Celestial Venerable of Immortality and the Immortal Tomb became inseparable, achieving a perfect fusion. Moreover, during this process, Liang Yu also entrusted some secrets of the Boundless Dao Stele to the Celestial Venerable of Immortality, allowing him to internally control the direction of the fusion, ultimately creating a state that retained its own consciousness yet was distinct from everything else in the universe.

The Immortal Mausoleum is now like a colossal celestial artifact, and the Celestial Venerable of Longevity seems to have merged into it, acting as a deity and controlling this artifact. Therefore, the Celestial Venerable of Longevity, like the Immortal Mausoleum, is nearly immortal. It can be said that his reputation for longevity has been essentially fulfilled at this point. After all, a wondrous place like the Immortal Mausoleum, if not destroyed by external forces, could practically live as long as the heavens.

However, this also has side effects.

Now, the Celestial Venerable of Longevity can still maintain his complete self, but in the long years to come, his thoughts and life activities will continue to lengthen and slow down, synchronizing with the pulse of the Immortal Mausoleum and even the universe.

Although he will still be himself and will not have lost consciousness, he will eventually gradually transform into a completely different life form, even his thought patterns will be changed. Of course, this is something that will happen after countless years, so we can put it aside for now; the current difficulties are more important.

After all, it would take an unknown amount of time to reach that point. With Liang Yu, the Celestial Venerable of Morality, the Celestial Venerable of Spiritual Treasure, the Celestial Venerable of Primordial Beginning, and the Celestial Venerable of the Underworld around, they would have enough time to research a solution. Moreover, although the Celestial Venerable of Longevity is not as powerful as them, he is still a Celestial Venerable of his generation. In the long course of time, he might just find a solution on his own.

The reason for the current divine punishment is that the Immortal Mausoleum is not a man-made artifact, but a wondrous place naturally born from heaven and earth, essentially a child of the universe. In some ways, even a Holy Spirit, a child of the universe born of heaven and earth, cannot compare to the status of these wondrous places.

The actions of the Eternal Celestial Venerable are tantamount to possessing the most beloved child of the universe in order to evade his destined death. This directly violates two taboos, doubling the consequences. Therefore, it is only natural that the Eternal Celestial Venerable would be targeted by the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, triggering divine punishment.

Although this kind of tribulation lightning punishment is nothing to Liang Yu and the others, even if they disperse the tribulation lightning, the sea of ​​lightning will still reassemble and will not stop until the Longevity Celestial Venerable is destroyed.

Although they only need to set up the Heaven-Deceiving Array to prevent the Thunder Sea from finding its target, and the Eternal Life Celestial Venerable would naturally escape unscathed, the Thunder Tribulation would still linger near the Immortal Tomb. This is not ideal, and they still need to find a way to solve this problem.

After learning the details, Yuanshi Tianzun couldn't help but exclaim, "Isn't Fellow Daoist Changsheng's state equivalent to an alternative form of immortality, or even an alternative path to becoming an immortal? Fellow Daoist Wuji is indeed incredibly talented. I'm afraid we are all far inferior to you on the path to immortality."

After all, without Liang Yu, the Celestial Venerable of Longevity could never have achieved this state. And the others, in their own words, certainly wouldn't have had such ingenious ideas, let alone actually put them into practice. The Underworld Venerable also shook his head, saying, "Fellow Daoist Wuji is indeed far-sighted. Did you already have this idea when you dragged me along to study the laws of these wondrous places?"

Liang Yu laughed and said, "Fellow Daoist Mingzun and Fellow Daoist Yuanshi think too highly of me. This is just the result of my various attempts and the collisions that occurred. I only know that researching these things may yield unexpected results, but I have no idea what the specifics will be. Moreover, if it weren't for Fellow Daoist Changsheng, I would not have succeeded at all."

"However, we can talk about that later. I need to help Fellow Daoist Changsheng resolve this issue first. After all, I'm partly responsible for this situation as well. Do you two have any ideas?"

The Underworld Lord said, "If our Origin Techniques were to break through again and we were to become Universe Lords from Heaven and Earth Lords, then perhaps we could directly manipulate the laws of the Great Universe and erase this tribulation. But for now, I can only think of using the Heaven-Deceiving Array Pattern to delay it."

Yuanshi Tianzun frowned and said, "I just tried to intervene in this tribulation with the Heavenly Heart Mark, but I could only weaken it, not completely erase it."

Liang Yu also fell into deep thought. He muttered to himself, "The Lord of the Universe? The Mark of the Heavenly Heart? I seem to have a flash of inspiration. What could it be?"

The Great Universe will kill the Eternal Celestial Venerable for two reasons: first, because he violated a taboo, and second, because he affected the Great Universe's self-repair and growth.

After all, the Celestial Venerable of Longevity can now manipulate the Immortal Tomb. If he continues to evolve, becoming a world within a world, or even leaving the human universe, it will cause incalculable damage to the human universe.

In particular, this is just the beginning for the Celestial Venerable of Immortality. Once he succeeds, more people will try, and the universe will become weaker and weaker, perhaps even hollowed out.

As the saying goes, "He who starts something will have no descendants," and the universe naturally intends to nip the Longevity Celestial Venerable, who is about to cause this series of subsequent events, in the bud.

To fundamentally solve this problem, we must find a way to transform this matter into something beneficial to the universe. In this way, the universe will not only not reject it, but will also welcome it. In that case, the Celestial Venerable of Longevity would have paved an alternative path to immortality.

Liang Yu seemed to have already vaguely figured out a starting point, and he would soon see the light at the end of the tunnel.

The Lord of the Underworld suddenly said, "The imprint of the human universe!"

Liang Yu suddenly realized that this was also the idea that had just been on the tip of his tongue.

(End of this chapter)