Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 220 Success
The fact that the Old Man of Fortune could perceive this supernatural power fully demonstrates its extraordinary nature. After all, in order to prevent others from noticing, the Celestial Venerable of Freedom had used many methods to conceal the secrets of heaven. Throughout this process, the other supreme beings were completely unaware of it, but the Old Man of Fortune still sensed something amiss.

The astonished old man immediately wanted to notify the others, but on a whim, he inexplicably used his telepathic abilities to try and sense the mind of the carefree celestial being. Because among everyone present, only the carefree celestial being exceeded his calculations, the outcome remained unknown.

Although this process was only momentarily blocked by the time laws of the Free and Unfettered Celestial Venerable, he still felt the Free and Unfettered Celestial Venerable's malice and even killing intent towards them, the supreme beings.

Previously, since he, the Carefree Celestial Venerable, had only communicated through celestial secret slips and had not met face-to-face, he could only judge Venerable's attitude from his words. After the Carefree Celestial Venerable shared various precious secret techniques and painstakingly perfected his plan, the Old Man of Fortune also came to believe in the Carefree Celestial Venerable.

But now, at close range, he saw through the disguise of the Carefree Celestial Venerable and learned of the Venerable's intentions to deal with them, which also brought great disaster upon himself. Knowing that things were going badly, the Old Man of Fortune immediately chose to flee.

Originally, because the Elder Fude had always preferred to smooth things over and value harmony, these Supreme Beings didn't really want to do anything to him. They knew that the Elder Fude wouldn't join them in plotting against the other Supreme Beings, so they deliberately kept it from him, thinking that by then the die would be cast and he would have no choice but to join.

But unexpectedly, the old man Fude also possessed the ancient supernatural powers of clairaudience and telepathy passed down from prehistoric Buddhism, which resulted in the old man Fude finding out about their plans just as they were about to begin.

When the old man Fude first awoke, Fude Baolun did not issue a warning because neither the carefree Heavenly Venerable nor any of the other supreme beings intended to kill him. However, his curiosity ultimately led him to invite disaster.

The carefree Celestial Venerable sensed something was wrong as soon as he resisted the old man's telepathic abilities. He was also a little anxious, because if the old man of fortune sensed his plan and revealed it, his transformation plan would not be able to be completed. Therefore, he had to find a way to silence him.

But he is not capable of killing Old Man Fude instantly right now; he needs help from others.

So the Carefree Celestial Venerable told the other Supreme Beings that the Old Man of Fortune might know about their plan. The Supreme Beings, who were initially skeptical, sensed the Old Man of Fortune's desire to escape and had no choice but to believe it. Of course, this was also because they dared not gamble.

The other Supreme Beings were equally worried that their plan would be exposed and found out by the other dozens of Supreme Beings. If that happened, forget about entering the other world; the ten of them would likely be severely punished.

Moreover, given the Elder Fude's consistent style, the probability of him leaking secrets is indeed not low. After all, the other supreme beings are the majority.

So, the Carefree Celestial Venerable deliberately probed, "Fellow Daoist Fude may already know our plan, and now you still want to escape. What should we do?"

The Lord of Heaven was the first to make up his mind. He said fiercely, "Whether he really knows or not, whether he wants to ruin our plans or not, we must silence him. Our plans cannot be allowed to fail."

Although the other supreme beings in the heavens did not speak, they clearly agreed with the Lord of the Heavens' words. Seeing that the Heavens had all expressed their opinions, the Carefree Celestial Venerable looked at the Lord of the Heavenly Abyss.

The Lord of Tianyuan sighed, "We've known Fude for over a million years, and I don't want to deal with him. But for the sake of our grand plan, we have no choice." After all, the five of them had survived from before the mythical era until now, and their friendship was indeed very deep. But compared to their own future, these sentiments were naturally nothing. So, as the saying goes, it's better to sacrifice a friend than oneself.

Thus, the nine supreme beings who had reached a consensus, along with the carefree Heavenly Venerable, immediately gave chase. With the help of the carefree Heavenly Venerable's time law, they intercepted the Old Man of Fortune in just a few breaths.

After all, the Celestial Venerable of Freedom was originally the fastest in the world, and this became even more so after the great advancement of the laws of time.

Sensing his telepathic abilities, the Carefree Celestial Venerable, to prevent the Old Man of Fortune from revealing his secrets and ruining his plans, spared no effort in expending his own life force to intercept and kill him. Seeing this, the other Supreme Beings became even more determined to eliminate the Old Man of Fortune. After all, their time was running out.

Of course, this was also related to the fact that in those few moments, Liang Yu and his group stopped concealing their presence. They had no way back, and no time left; they had to start their plan immediately.

Therefore, these supreme beings did not give the old man Fu De a chance to speak before joining forces to instantly kill him and take his body and Dao Fruit back with them. With the combined attack of the nine supreme beings and the now greatly advanced Xiaoyao Tianzun, the old man Fu De was indeed unable to resist.

Even during this process, the Carefree Celestial Venerable learned of the other Supreme Beings' fear through the Heavenly Secrets Scroll, and thus warned them, officially launching the plan.

What followed was that the Carefree Celestial Venerable, with the help of the power of dozens of Supreme Beings and their entire fortune, quickly formed the form of the Immortal Treasure Bottle and incorporated their Great Dao Imprints.

Under the influence of the array patterns infused with this sacrificial ritual, even immortal gold would be broken down into pure golden essence, let alone other divine materials. Therefore, the materials sufficient to forge more than a dozen supreme weapons were all filled into the domain gate in a very short time, thus forming the body of an immortal treasure bottle.

Moreover, in order to gain greater control over this immortal artifact, these supreme beings exerted all their efforts, evolving their own Dao imprints to the extreme before entering the domain gate, without any shortcuts. After all, this immortal artifact, which they had jointly forged, was jointly controlled by dozens of people, and gaining even a little more control could give them a chance to compete for dominance when attacking the path to immortality in the future.

When the Carefree Celestial Venerable saw this immortal treasure bottle, which was even better than he had imagined, he was naturally overjoyed. Although he had guessed that these supreme beings would do this, he still couldn't help but marvel at the qualitative change brought about by the intertwining of dozens of Great Dao imprints.

Subsequently, the Carefree Celestial Venerable used the array patterns to his advantage, not only successfully preventing the other six Supreme Beings of the Forbidden Zones from escaping through the Domain Gate, but also severely injuring the nine Supreme Beings currently gathered in the Heavenly Realm, and then killing them all as nourishment for himself.

Even if the Carefree Celestial Venerable were to consume the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill to restore himself to his peak, he would still be unable to achieve this. Yet now, through this series of schemes, he has accomplished it with almost no effort. At this moment, the Carefree Celestial Venerable cannot help but feel somewhat smug.

After all, he truly snatched food from the tiger's mouth, scheming against dozens of supreme beings and the Great Heavenly Venerable Wuji, and achieved his goal.

(End of this chapter)