Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 207, Step Two of the Plan

The Forbidden Zone of Life, the Abyss, is a bottomless cavern containing a vast underground world.

It is a forbidden zone of life that existed before the mythical era, where five supreme beings severed themselves. Over the long course of time, these five supreme beings should have simply grown old and passed away, and they might not have even lived to the Primordial Era.

However, the secret technique created by the Carefree Celestial Venerable and the special Nine-Turn Immortal Elixir extended their lives and even restored their condition to a state that was better than before, thus allowing them to persevere until this point.

When Ye Fan was searching for the broken Hengyu Furnace in his later years, he discovered a bottomless chasm on the ancient star of the Mighty Bull Demon Clan. This was actually the ruined Tianyuan.

At this time, Tianyuan was no longer on its original ancient star, but had been taken to the side of the heavens.

The Celestial Realm, also known as Burial Island, is a unique and wondrous place formed when the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, who established the Heavenly Court in the previous era, severed the summit of Mount Tai, which had just fallen to earth. Perhaps its name, Burial Island, comes from the fact that the ancient Heavenly Emperor once intended to use this place as his tomb, though he ultimately did not.

This wondrous place originally belonged to the ancient Heavenly Court's ruler, the Desolate Heavenly Emperor. Later, it belonged to the ancient Heavenly Court itself, and then even the ancient Heavenly Court disappeared. Naturally, this island became an unclaimed land, drifting in the universe for countless millennia.

It wasn't until this era, when a supreme being accidentally discovered this place, that it was transformed into a forbidden zone. Furthermore, considering that the self-severing supreme being Ye Fan encountered when he pacified Burial Sky Island in later years was primarily an ancient emperor, it's highly likely that the supreme beings on Burial Sky Island were destroyed during the Emperor era. It was simply rediscovered in the ancient era, once again becoming a forbidden zone for life.

This is what makes these strange lands so extraordinary. Even though they have gone through the changing times and the supreme beings who have ruled over them have changed several times, they themselves remain immortal. If it were the Heavenly Abyss that is currently nearby, then as long as there is no self-severing supreme being within it, it would only gradually lose its divine charm over the long years and return to ordinariness, just as Ye Fan saw after countless years.

Moreover, this Burial Sky Island is not only a wondrous place, but it may also be the most mysterious of all wondrous places, making it even more extraordinary.

Burial Sky Island, this wondrous place, is formed by nine enormous mountain ranges resembling true dragons, connected to a celestial island. It can be said that these nine dragon veins are perhaps the largest and most extraordinary dragon veins in the human universe. Beneath the mountain ranges, the nine dragon energies seem to be hiding within them, as if they are raising their heads and roaring, wanting to leap into the heavens and ascend to immortality from the mortal realm.

The coffin-shaped immortal island behind it is even more incredible. On the surface, they seem to be two separate parts, but in reality, the laws and Dao traces between them are perfectly integrated and inseparable.

The core treasure of this immortal island, and indeed the core treasure of the entire wondrous land, is an ancient cave shrouded in celestial mist, shimmering with rosy light, and surging with auspicious energy. At this moment, ten figures are inside the ancient cave, along with the corpse of a supreme being, which is the very aura that Liang Yu sensed had vanished.

Even inside the ancient cave, one can see a mysterious six-pointed star-shaped array platform constructed from the Primordial Life Stone and Immortal Source. Countless mysterious array patterns intertwine, giving rise to a sublime, sacred yet subtly sinister aura.

At the six corners of this array platform, there are six smaller array platforms constructed in the same way. However, these smaller platforms faintly exhibit fluctuations of the laws of the void, and countless divine lights travel through these array patterns to converge into the main array platform.

Among these ten figures, five were supreme beings from Burial Sky Island, four were from Tianyuan, and the last one was naturally the Carefree Celestial Venerable.

The deceased Supreme Being also came from Tianyuan, and he was a familiar face—the very same Elder Fude who had come to mediate between Liang Yu and the Kunlun Clan when Liang Yu had just attained enlightenment and a conflict had broken out. Looking outside Burial Sky Island at the intricate array formed by the ten pagodas left by Liang Yu, shrouded in chaotic energy, the Lord of Heaven couldn't help but sigh, "Wuji is indeed formidable. He actually managed to collect these ten immortal materials to forge ten pagodas, one of which was even refined into an immortal artifact. He's truly more than an immortal himself!"

"Moreover, this great formation should have been derived from the Lingbao Tianzun's word-combination secret, and it is extremely mysterious. I'm afraid none of us would be able to break the formation in a short time."

Looking at the six array patterns that lit up in the array platform and the power that was constantly being transmitted from it, the Lord of Tianyuan couldn't help but say, "Are we really going to do this? Fellow Daoist Xiaoyao, isn't this a bit too extreme?"

The Carefree Celestial Venerable sneered, “Fellow Daoists, haven’t you heard that the last leg of a journey is the hardest? The grand plan is about to succeed, yet you’re all hesitating? Don’t forget, it was you who came up with this plan with me. If you think I’m ruthless, where were you before? You’re just crocodile tears.”

"If this keeps going on, why don't we just go out and surrender, and see if Wuji will let us go?"

The Lord of Heaven said, "Fellow Daoist Xiaoyao is right. We have come to this point, and we can only sacrifice you to save me. We have finally managed to gain this window of opportunity, and we must not miss it."

The Celestial Venerable of Freedom said, "Time is life, fellow Daoists. Every moment you hesitate increases the chances of our plan failing. Think carefully: is becoming an immortal more important, or are those strangers who are not very familiar with us more important?"

The Lord of Tianyuan said, "I was just making a sigh, Fellow Daoist Xiaoyao, please don't be angry. Now that things have come to this, we should naturally go all the way."

Seeing that the other supreme beings also expressed their approval, the carefree heavenly being smiled and said, "Then let's begin."

As they spoke, the ten of them once again changed the array patterns, sending signals to the other six forbidden zones that were participating.

Yes, among the ten forbidden zones, the Heavenly Illusion Realm and the Cloud Soaring Divine Realm, which Liang Yu believed had the potential to win over most people, were not included in their plan.

After all, most of the self-severers in these two forbidden zones are law-abiding citizens, and they could easily be won over by Liang Yu and defect. However, all the supreme beings in the other forbidden zones have already launched dark rebellions, so they have no chance to surrender and can only fight to the end.

The main array platform in the heavens kept flashing with celestial light, and the array patterns within it changed accordingly, causing the six smaller array platforms to also change.

Among the six forbidden zones allied with them, there were also six array platforms that were almost identical to those six small array platforms. They were interconnected through the laws of the void. They had previously used this array platform to transmit everyone's power to the heavens and merge them into one.

Upon seeing the changes in the array patterns on the platform, the Supreme Beings of the other six forbidden zones naturally knew it was time to begin the second phase of the plan. Therefore, they also immediately began to adjust their array patterns.

(End of this chapter)