Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 219 Eve
Perhaps it was because the Carefree Celestial Venerable saw in these self-severed Supreme Beings his former self, the one who had clung to life by abandoning parts of himself, and he deeply loathed that version of himself.

Therefore, the Carefree Celestial Venerable harbored a subtle malice towards the other self-severed Supreme Beings. Consequently, his relationships with the other Supreme Beings were never very harmonious. Even those occasional relatively harmonious relationships, such as with the Underworld Venerable, the Longevity Celestial Venerable, and the Annihilation Celestial Venerable, were mostly gentlemanly friendships, not particularly deep.

However, the Carefree Celestial Venerable never wanted to disrupt Liang Yu's plan to exterminate the Supreme Beings of the Forbidden Zones; on the contrary, he strongly supported it. In his eyes, these walking corpses, who had gradually degenerated and lost all spirit, should have been buried by time long ago. This plan required him to have in-depth exchanges and close cooperation with so many Supreme Beings, which could also be considered a test.

Therefore, even though the true plan of the Carefree Celestial Venerable was only to transform himself from beginning to end, he still took the opportunity to trick these Supreme Beings. He not only made these Supreme Beings do his hard labor, but also directly or indirectly cut off their life force.

It can be said that the actions of the Carefree Celestial Venerable not only did not hinder Liang Yu and his group's elimination plan, but actually helped them.

After all, these dozens of Supreme Beings had had most of their energy diverted by the Free and Unfettered Celestial Venerable's overt plans over the years, thus losing time to research and cause trouble in other areas. Moreover, they were interrupted by the Free and Unfettered Celestial Venerable's teleportation and left behind in their respective forbidden zones, where they were caught red-handed by the arriving Moral Celestial Venerable, Spiritual Treasure Celestial Venerable, and others, leaving them no time to escape or prepare a counterattack. As for the Supreme Beings in the Heavenly Realm and the Abyss, they were even more thoroughly schemed against and killed by the Free and Unfettered Celestial Venerable.

The reason why the Celestial Venerable of Freedom did this was mainly because, through his experiments, he confirmed that the corrupting power of that dark force was indeed very strong. Even if he could reduce its danger through that sacrificial method, it would be difficult for him alone to bear and digest such power.

Therefore, he conceived of sacrificing other supreme beings, using their flesh and blood to neutralize this dark power and reduce its danger. Then, he would absorb this mixed energy through this sacrificial ritual. This would not only mitigate the risks but also enhance the transformation process.

After all, the fact that these self-severing supreme beings constantly launch dark turmoil and kill some potential geniuses who may have attained enlightenment shows that life is the greatest medicine, and the stronger the physique and the higher the realm, the better its effects.

Since these self-severing supreme beings are going to die anyway, and they'll be burdened with blood debts, why not harvest a wave of them and let them experience what it's like to be used as medicine? This can be considered making use of waste.

However, according to his estimation, he would probably need the flesh and blood of at least six or seven supreme beings to basically ensure that he could neutralize and weaken this dark power, and ultimately be transformed and absorbed by him through sacrificial rituals.

However, the current Celestial Venerable of Freedom is unable to do so, as he is still in a state of self-severance. Although the Celestial Venerable of Freedom has gained greater strength through the time law, which far surpasses his previous abilities, he is still unable to undergo a metamorphosis due to the damage to his Immortal Platform. Therefore, he cannot fully convert his accumulated power into combat strength. Once the opponent sublimates or faces multiple opponents, the Celestial Venerable of Freedom will also be unable to win.

So what should he do? After much contemplation, the Carefree Celestial Venerable came up with two plans: if he was going to play, he should play big and reap greater rewards. Therefore, he chose the supreme beings of the Heavenly Realm and the Abyss as his sacrifices.

The flesh and blood fruits of the ten supreme beings were already slightly exceeding the standard. However, the carefree heavenly venerable would also help the immortal treasure bottle complete the final step and become an immortal artifact during this transformation process, so it was naturally perfect.

Then came the period before the true path to immortality began.

At this time, the carefree Celestial Venerable, who was still in the Primordial Ancient Mine, received the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill from Liang Yu and his arrangements to take action against other forbidden zones.

Although the Carefree Celestial Venerable wasn't surprised, he couldn't help but marvel at how Wuji could continue living for another 50,000 years and still be preparing such a grand plan. To avoid exposure, the Carefree Celestial Venerable naturally engaged in friendly conversation with the other five Supreme Beings of the Primordial Ancient Mine, and then, taking advantage of their seclusion after consuming the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill, left the Primordial Ancient Mine and arrived in the Celestial Realm. At this time, the Celestial Realm and the Heavenly Abyss had already secretly aligned themselves.

The Celestial Venerable of Freedom has come here to have a final discussion and refinement of the plan with the other Supreme Beings.

It was at this moment that the old man, who had been in a deep slumber, awoke. He had actually been involved in the original plan to forge immortal artifacts, but he was completely unaware of the schemes these two forbidden zones were plotting against other supreme beings.

Therefore, at this moment he sensed that there was not a single supreme being in the Heavenly Abyss; they had all moved to the neighboring Heavenly Realm.

Curious, the old man Fude also came to the heavens, and then discovered that the array patterns of the heavens seemed slightly different, and that the carefree heavenly beings were plotting something.

Driven by curiosity, the old man Fude used his divine hearing to hear the conversation between the carefree celestial being and other supreme beings through the array patterns. He learned that they wanted to use the other supreme beings as pawns to achieve their own plan.

Ancient Buddhism has six supernatural powers: the divine eye, the divine ear, the ability to know others' minds, the ability to know past lives, the ability to travel at will, and the ability to expiate all defilements. The divine ear is one of them.

The origins of Buddhism are actually very ancient. Although their lineage has been largely severed in the human universe, some ancient scriptures and teachings on supernatural powers have survived. In fact, during the mythological era, the number of people who practiced Buddhist supernatural powers far exceeded the number of actual Buddhist disciples.

As a supreme being from before the mythological era, the Old Man of Fortune had considerable knowledge of Buddhist supernatural powers. His divine hearing was actually one of his hidden methods. Furthermore, the "Synergistic Sound of Mind" he once used was actually derived from his telepathic abilities.

The old man of Fortune used his divine hearing to penetrate the array patterns set up by the carefree Celestial Venerable and others, and heard their plan. This is enough to demonstrate the terrifying nature of this Buddhist divine power. Although it has no offensive power, it can ignore array patterns and hear all sounds. Moreover, the carefree Celestial Venerable and his companions were completely unaware of this process.

The old man with good fortune instinctively sensed something was wrong. The Fortune Wheel he created based on his knowledge of destiny could reveal good and bad fortune to a certain extent, which was why he had been able to avoid misfortune and turn danger into safety for so many years.

But now, this supernatural power has begun to issue a warning. He never expected that he would encounter such a great calamity after waking up from a nap.

Furthermore, according to his calculations, this ominous sign was not only directed at him, but also at the other supreme beings present. In other words, they were all facing a life-or-death calamity.

(End of this chapter)