Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 192 Stages of Earth Immortals

Throughout the entire process of Changsheng Tianzun becoming an Earth Immortal, Liang Yu had a deep understanding of everything from the prerequisites to the specific procedures. In fact, his Dao Wo almost personally propelled Changsheng Tianzun's transformation into an Earth Immortal for most of the time. It can be said that he was fully aware of all the changes that occurred to Changsheng Tianzun during this process, and there were even some details that Changsheng Tianzun himself might not have known as well as he did.

Therefore, Liang Yu's research on the Path to Earthly Immortality was naturally very profound. Thus, their research and discussion on the Path to Earthly Immortality was primarily led by Liang Yu and the Celestial Venerable of Longevity. Moreover, the subsequent growth of this Path to Earthly Immortality should ultimately rest on Liang Yu's shoulders.

Ultimately, these extraordinary places are still special terrains. For a terrain to evolve, it will gradually become a small world, a chaotic divine land, a great realm, or even a true universe.

Therefore, such a special place, which inherently contains immortal divinity, will naturally evolve into a great world like the Immortal Realm. In other words, the subsequent path to becoming an Earth Immortal is actually about evolving the wondrous place that one merges with into the Immortal Realm, thereby generating more longevity substances and immortal laws.

Clearly, what this process requires most is the ancient scripture that Liang Yu obtained from the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin. Since this scripture can be used to create the small immortal realm within the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin, and even repair the immortal realm, it can naturally help earth immortals like the Eternal Heavenly Venerable to evolve their immortal tombs in the direction of the small immortal realm.

The biggest difference between this method and that of the later Qingdi is that the Qingdi carried out this long-term project when he himself could not even achieve immortality. Therefore, he only achieved a little success before his lifespan was almost over, and he could not see any hope of success at all.

The method employed by the Celestial Venerable of Longevity involves first achieving a near-immortal state before beginning to develop his Immortal Realm. Even if the progress is slow, he won't die from exhaustion first. Even if it takes millions or tens of millions of years, he has the means to endure it.

Moreover, the Azure Emperor uses the Desolate Tower. Although the Desolate Tower is powerful, it is still just a celestial artifact. It is somewhat insufficient to become a true celestial realm or a great world. And most importantly, he will lose consciousness as a result, until he is completely transformed into a weapon and cannot wake up.

The Celestial Venerable of Longevity used the Immortal Mausoleum. Although the Immortal Mausoleum was not as sturdy as the Desolate Tower, nor as powerful, it was a special terrain that was almost self-contained and contained special laws. It was obviously more suitable than the Desolate Tower for evolving an Immortal Realm.

Moreover, both Liang Yu and the Eternal Celestial Venerable overcame the problem of losing self-awareness by using various primordial mystical techniques and the special secrets of the Boundless Dao Stele. Of course, this was also because the Immortal Tomb's ability to erode the Eternal Celestial Venerable's consciousness was indeed not as strong as that of a weapon like the Desolate Tower.

It can be said that this method of cultivating immortality was inspired by Liang Yu's idea of ​​evolving immortal realms from the Azure Emperor. However, he did not expect that there would be someone like the Celestial Venerable of Longevity who could not only help him supplement this idea, but also truly realize it correctly, allowing this concept to be put into practice so quickly through continuous practice and accumulation in many aspects.

In the subsequent evolutionary process, the Immortal Mausoleum will continue to grow stronger and gradually become a small immortal realm. In that case, the Immortal Mausoleum will be able to generate immortal divinity on its own and upgrade the human and heavenly essence of the universe into longevity substances and immortal essence.

At that time, the Great Universe will absorb energy from the outside world, and the Celestial Venerable of Immortality will be responsible for transforming and upgrading a portion of the absorbed energy, and then feeding some back to the human universe. In this way, not only will the Immortal Mausoleum continuously evolve, but the human universe will also become more complete and stronger, absorbing even more energy. Then the Immortal Mausoleum will transform even more energy…

In this positive cycle, the Celestial Venerable of Longevity and the Great Universe achieved the most perfect cooperative and win-win relationship.

In other words, the more Earthly Immortals there are, the faster the universe will be repaired, and it may even continue to grow, eventually causing the entire human universe to begin to evolve towards a great world like the Immortal Realm.

This lesson actually comes from the experience of the Azure Emperor, who not only failed to complete the task alone but nearly destroyed himself. What kind of helper could compare to the Great Universe itself? With the support of the Great Universe, the process would definitely be much more efficient. After all, our Great Universe was once a glorious world with a very solid foundation.

After discovering the subsequent steps of the Earth Immortal Techniques, they still needed to reverse-engineer the methods based on the situation of the Celestial Venerable of Longevity, thus breaking down each step of the Earth Immortal Techniques so that future generations could follow them step by step. This process took them hundreds of years.

Ultimately, they divided the methods of becoming an Earth Immortal into six stages. Of course, this was intended for future generations of those who would attain enlightenment.

The first stage involves finding a unique place that resonates sufficiently with oneself, attempting to comprehend and decipher its laws, and creating corresponding scriptures. Although the difficulty of this is reduced by the influence of the macrocosm, it is probably not something everyone can accomplish.

If you can't crack its core laws in your first life, there's still the elixir of immortality to extend your life for another lifetime. If you can't do it in two lifetimes, then you should honestly change your path. For example, ascend to a strange world and wait for someone to take you to the Immortal Realm.

The second stage involves cultivating the scriptures gleaned from the wondrous land, condensing corresponding special laws and Dao traces within one's own body, and continuously transforming one's physique to deepen the connection with the wondrous land and create resonance. During this process, the cultivator can slow down aging within the wondrous land by relying on the constantly changing physique.

Similarly, if one cannot gradually transform their physique within the extended lifespan, it is also advisable to give up and ascend to immortality.

In the third stage, after the cultivator transforms themselves into the corresponding special physique, they need to transform themselves into a semi-holy spirit stone body and gradually begin to merge with the wondrous land. During this process, it is necessary to maintain the immortality of one's true spirit and deeply grasp and merge with the origin of the wondrous land.

Of course, once you reach this point, it's very difficult to turn back. The higher your level of integration with the strange land, the harder it is to break free, ultimately leading you down a dead end. If you fail, you will naturally become nourishment for the strange land.

The fourth stage is like the current Longevity Celestial Venerable, truly transforming into the wondrous land itself, becoming one with it, perfectly merging. Reaching this stage means you have truly traversed the path of the Earth Immortal and attained an alternative form of immortality.

As for the fifth stage, it is the next step deduced by Liang Yu and others over the past few centuries. It involves using the laws and traces of the wondrous land, as well as one's own Dao fruit and true spirit, as raw materials to reshape one's physical form. At this point, you will have transcended some of the constraints of the wondrous land and become the master of the wondrous land, that is, a true earth immortal.

Of course, this doesn't change the fact that the strange land is the core. Although this form can leave the strange land, it will rapidly weaken with time and distance. However, it has indeed expanded its range of activity.

The form of this body was actually derived from the ancient Kunlun Immortal Body and the Primordial Origin from the Primordial Mine.

However, at this stage, this wondrous place can be renamed the Blessed Land of the Earthly Immortals.

The sixth stage involves continuously evolving the wondrous land into a blessed land for immortals, allowing it to grow and expand.

(End of this chapter)