Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 211 Total Destruction
These supreme beings were naturally full of confidence. After all, with the nine supreme beings ascending, the Carefree Celestial Venerable had absolutely no hope of surviving. Unless it was someone like the Limitless Ultimate Celestial Venerable, nine against one would mean that even the Carefree Celestial Venerable in his prime, before he severed his own body, would die without a burial place. How much more so now that the Carefree Celestial Venerable was merely a self-severed supreme being?

Watching the nine figures within the great formation being constantly eroded yet about to reach their ultimate sublimation, attempting to break free of the formation to deal with him, the Carefree Celestial Venerable sighed softly: "If it were before, I would have had no hope of dealing with you, but now, I am no longer the same as before."

As he spoke, an aura of supreme power surged forth from the body of the Carefree Celestial Venerable. He had returned to his peak, as if the once invincible Carefree Celestial Venerable had returned once more. In fact, his aura seemed even stronger than in his prime, and his laws of time far surpassed those of his former self.

A river of time appeared in the palm of the Carefree Celestial Venerable. This river had no beginning or end, and flowed endlessly, winding and swirling in his palm, forming an unprecedented supreme divine power.

This is a new supernatural power created by the Carefree Celestial Venerable after his great advancement in cultivation. Now, he can manipulate the river of time at will without having to risk his life.

As he unleashed this attack, time itself shifted, the world changed, and spacetime seemed to become distorted, making it impossible to discern the past from the future. The nine supreme beings' expressions changed drastically, for they discovered that under the erosion of the river of time, their states had been reversed to a point before their ultimate sublimation! In other words, their process of ultimate sublimation had been directly interrupted.

The carefree Celestial Venerable said calmly, "Gentlemen, you should stop struggling. No matter how many times you try to sublimate, I can interrupt you. You have no chance."

As a self-severed Supreme Being, the Carefree Celestial Venerable naturally understood the problem of ultimate sublimation, which lay in that fleeting vulnerability. Originally, he would have struggled to detect it, but now, with his greatly advanced understanding of the laws of time, he could exploit any such opening that existed. It could be said that the Carefree Celestial Venerable at this moment was the nemesis of self-severed Supreme Beings.

Liang Yu's estimate was correct. If the Carefree Celestial Venerable repaired his Immortal Platform, he could undergo a direct transformation, evolving a completely new physique using the laws of time, thus reaching the level of a quasi-Heavenly Emperor. As for whether he could continue to transform, that was hard to say.

Regardless, he has far surpassed his past self. However, due to the lingering wounds from his self-inflicted injury, this progress is difficult to fully manifest. Even so, his strength has increased considerably, as his Law-based divine abilities have reached the quasi-Heavenly Emperor level. Of course, the current Free and Unfettered Heavenly Venerable is still not capable of taking on nine opponents at once, as he is at most a near-quasi-Heavenly Emperor.

But now, the opponents of the Carefree Celestial Venerable have all suffered heavy injuries, and he also has an ultimate array composed of the Immortal Dao Treasure Bottle, dozens of Supreme Dao Imprints and the entire Heaven to suppress his opponents. The Carefree Celestial Venerable only needs to use his supernatural powers to interrupt the ascension of these Supreme beings, so it can be said that he is almost certain to win and there is no pressure at all.

After several attempts at ultimate sublimation were interrupted by the Carefree Celestial Venerable, the Lord of Heaven shouted sternly, "Carefree Celestial Venerable, why are you doing this?"

The Lord of Tianyuan struggled as he spoke, "You have already displayed the power of your peak, which should be the ultimate sublimation, right? Did you do all this just to drag us down with you?"

The Celestial Venerable of Freedom said, "Of course I did not achieve the ultimate sublimation. This time, only you will die. I was able to return to my peak state only because I obtained a special Nine-Turn Immortal Pill, which can allow me to return to my peak state for two thousand years."

The Lord of Heaven said, "It's Wuji. Are you joining forces with Wuji to kill us all? With your strength, why resort to such methods? Do you think it's fun?"

These Supreme Beings are indeed very difficult to understand. Judging from the Supreme Beings in the Primordial Ancient Mine, they must have returned to their peak through some method. Otherwise, they wouldn't have used ultimate sublimation just to kill a few Supreme Beings, would they? If they had that kind of resolve, would they have committed suicide?

Now that the Carefree Celestial Venerable had spoken, they naturally connected it to the situation of those people, knowing that it must have been orchestrated by the Limitless Celestial Venerable and the Moral Celestial Venerable. But since the Carefree Celestial Venerable had also taken their Nine-Turn Immortal Pill, it meant he was one of them, and Heaven had already exposed him. Why bother with so many roundabout ways? Just come and attack directly; we wouldn't be able to retaliate.

You can't be doing this just to toy with your prey, can you? That's too perverse. If you can even come up with a method for forging immortal artifacts under these circumstances, wouldn't it be even easier for you to team up with Wuji? Aren't you all in cahoots?
Therefore, these supreme beings simply cannot comprehend the current situation.

The Carefree Celestial Venerable sighed, "No, you've misunderstood. I didn't join forces with Wuji; I merely used his arrangements to complete my own plan." "Then are all these plans you've told us about false?"

The carefree Celestial Venerable said, "No, the plans I told you about are all true, but I've hidden a plan concerning myself."

The Lord of Heaven laughed bitterly, "Xiaoyao, do you intend to use our flesh and blood and Dao fruits to achieve Nirvana, thereby restoring the Immortal Platform and retracing the path to immortality?"

The Celestial Venerable of Freedom said, "You guessed right, but your flesh and blood Dao Fruits are just one of the materials for my transformation. Alright, you know enough, it's time to get going."

As it spoke, the Immortal Treasure Bottle emitted a brilliant light, and dozens of humanoid imprints fell, merging with the endless immortal light to shatter the nine supreme beings once more, rendering them irreparable. Their auras finally began to weaken.

The Lord of Tianyuan roared, "Xiaoyao! I will not let you have your way!"

As he spoke, he began to actively transform into Dao, his body igniting with raging Dao flames, as if to reduce everything to nothingness. Seeing this, the other Supreme Beings began to follow suit. Since escape was impossible anyway, they might as well use this method for a final counterattack.

After all, the Celestial Venerable of Leisure had used a method that seemed to have a very high success rate to deceive them into working diligently for so many years, only to have them all benefit from it and even lose themselves in the process. This kind of hatred would be difficult to erase even after ten reincarnations. Therefore, they absolutely did not want the Celestial Venerable of Leisure to get his way.

"Xiaoyao, you've betrayed us after you've served your purpose, you've schemed against us all, you deserve to die a horrible death!"

"Xiaoyao, we'll be waiting for you in hell!"

While cursing the Celestial Venerable of Freedom, they began to unleash their Dao Transformation Power, attempting to destroy themselves and even the soon-to-be-completed Immortal Artifact.

The Carefree Celestial said, "You should indeed hate me. As for Hell, I may soon be stepping into it, but it will most likely not be the same one as yours."

As he spoke, he activated the Time Law in his hand once again, even reversing the process of Dao Transformation that had just begun.

Of course, this is because their transformation into the Dao has only just begun, and their power is not yet strong enough. If the Dao fire is allowed to burn for a while, even if the Celestial Venerable of Freedom makes great progress in the laws of time, it will be difficult to interrupt it.

In the end, these nine supreme beings died with boundless hatred and resentment. Of course, during this process, the corpse of the first person they killed, the old man Fu De, was also refined into them.

The flesh and blood of these ten supreme beings, along with their Dao fruits, ultimately transformed into a crimson pool of blood, within which countless runes shimmered, revealing the pinnacle mysteries of their respective fields.

(End of this chapter)