Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 203 A Sudden Appearance Shocks the World
For a full 50,000 years in this life, Liang Yu concealed his presence without revealing anything. Therefore, apart from a few important allies like Yuanshi Tianzun and Daode Tianzun, no one else knew that he was still in the mortal realm.

Even the six supreme beings in the Primordial Ancient Mine only learned a few years ago, when they received the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill refined by the Moral Celestial Venerable, that the Limitless Celestial Venerable had always been in the mortal world and had never left.

After all, although Liang Yu had told them about his plans for reincarnation and ascension long ago, his Dao imprint had disappeared from the mortal realm for fifty thousand years. Therefore, they couldn't be sure whether Liang Yu was dead or had become an immortal.

However, due to Liang Yu's performance in his previous three incarnations, the supreme beings he chose still had great confidence in him. They firmly believed that even if the Boundless Great Celestial Venerable truly became an immortal, he would definitely leave behind a backup plan in the mortal realm to complete these plans, such as a Dharma body, a great formation, or a celestial artifact.

After all, in their understanding, the Supreme Celestial Venerable Wuji was always a person who planned carefully before acting.

Now, although they haven't seen the ultimate contingency plan of the Supreme Celestial Venerable, they know that he himself is still in the mortal realm. This is naturally more effective than any contingency plan or arrangement. And what does this mean? It means that the Supreme Celestial Venerable has existed in the mortal realm for 150,000 years!
Fifteen thousand years—what a terrifying number! In the hearts of these self-severing supreme beings and those who attained enlightenment through other means, the Limitless Heavenly Venerable was more than just an immortal.

It is precisely because of this that they are full of confidence in their future reincarnation and ascension to immortality, and are ready at any time to wipe out all those self-severing supreme beings for Liang Yu, and jointly create a new era.

As for Liang Yu himself, his 50,000-year wait had finally come to an end, and a sense of excitement rose in his heart. After all, he had been preparing to completely eliminate the forbidden zones of life since his first life.

In fact, to cooperate with him, Lingbao Tianzun and Daode Tianzun did not reveal their auras at all during this process, so they did put in some effort.

Although Liang Yu and his group had only been making plans incidentally while exploring the Immortal Path in the Mortal World over the years, the time span had indeed been quite long.

The exposure of this secret is a death knell for all forbidden zones. It signifies that Liang Yu is about to launch a full-scale attack. As the initiator and organizer of this plan, Liang Yu will naturally issue the orders; everyone else will simply fight and kill.

Now that all aspects of the plan have been fulfilled, Liang Yu, along with the Moral Celestial Venerable, the Spiritual Treasure Celestial Venerable, and the Underworld Venerable, no longer concealed their auras, revealing together with the Primordial Celestial Venerable the terrifying aura that could shake the heavens and earth and cause the Great Dao to collapse.

This universe already possessed the terrifying aura created when the path to immortality opened, as well as the terrifying Great Dao imprint of the Primordial Heavenly Venerable suppressing all paths. Now, four more auras have soared into the sky, each no weaker than the Primordial Heavenly Venerable who has dominated the mortal realm for forty thousand years. This left all the cultivators who sensed this speechless.

Soon, the identities of the four were recognized by some older cultivators with relatively higher cultivation levels and broader perspectives. Instantly, the universe was in an uproar.

"How could the Supreme Celestial Venerable Wuji, who has already ascended to immortality, still be in the mortal realm? Did he fail in his attempt to ascend to immortality fifty thousand years ago? Or has he returned from the Immortal Realm?"

"The Celestial Venerable of Morality, who lived over a million years ago, is still alive? Has he become an immortal? How can someone who has attained enlightenment live for over a million years?"

"Lingbao Tianzun is actually still alive! He disappeared not long after quelling the corpse calamity, and now he has reappeared. Could it be related to the appearance of the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Qi on the edge of the universe many tens of thousands of years ago?" "The Underworld Lord who created the Underworld, the source of the corpse calamity, is also alive, and he's even with several other Tianzun. I've heard that the Underworld Lord doesn't care about the Underworld's affairs, and that the corpse calamity was started by people in the Underworld on their own initiative. Could this be true? After all, the others, especially Wuji Tianzun and Lingbao Tianzun, would never tolerate the instigator of the corpse calamity."

"What if they commit suicide?"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible. This kind of aura shouldn't be emitted by a self-severing Supreme Being. After all, if they had severed themselves, how could their aura compare to that of the Primordial Heavenly Venerable?"

"I still find it hard to believe that they can survive for so long. It's simply a myth."

"Since things have come to this, I'm even more curious: now that they've appeared in the world, are they going to attack the path to immortality? With them around, we might really be able to witness the grand spectacle of them truly conquering the Immortal Realm."

Under the shock of these five auras, even the supreme auras gradually emerging in the various forbidden zones were thrown into chaos. After all, they knew that the Underworld Lord and the Primordial Heavenly Lord were still alive, but the fact that the Limitless Heavenly Lord, the Moral Heavenly Lord, and the Spiritual Treasure Heavenly Lord were also alive was terrifying. What era were these people from? How could they still be alive, and even have not committed suicide?
As supreme beings who had severed themselves many years ago, they could naturally distinguish from these auras that Liang Yu, the Underworld Lord, the Moral Heavenly Lord, and the Spiritual Treasure Heavenly Lord were all in a state of perfection, without any trace of disharmonious aura left behind by their self-severance.

These five overwhelming auras were like five mountains, pressing down on their hearts and filling them with fear, as if they were about to face annihilation.

One of the Supreme Beings said in despair, "All of us together are only a little over forty Supreme Beings, and we are not even completely united. Now that these five are here, do we still have a chance?"

After all, Liang Yu in his second life killed fifteen Supreme Beings by himself. Now he has become even more powerful, and he also has four equally powerful helpers. It is almost certain that they will be annihilated quickly.

These words immediately plunged all the supreme beings of the forbidden zones into despair and hopelessness.

At this moment, a voice rang out again from the Heavenly Secret Slip: "What's the panic? We've already started this, there's no turning back. Wuji has been hiding for so many years, and even sought the help of Daode and Lingbao. What do you think he's after? There's no other possibility than that he wants to wipe us out and then join forces to enter the path to immortality."

"Their appearance in this world means they are confident they can annihilate us. So fellow Daoists, at this time, we must not have any wishful thinking. Only by continuing according to our plan will we have a chance of survival. Moreover, we must be quick, before they come knocking on our door. Otherwise, we will die without a burial place."

Upon hearing this voice, the remaining Supreme Beings of the Forbidden Zones finally calmed down and began their respective plans. After all, they truly had no other choice. They could sense from the auras of Liang Yu and the others that they had been exposed, since the five Heavenly Venerables were coming directly for them.

(End of this chapter)