Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 225 Time Law Divine Power

Seeing that even the speed at which the Celestial Venerable Xiaoyao was healing his injuries was starting to slow down, Liang Yu sighed softly, "Fellow Daoist Xiaoyao, you should use your Time Laws sooner rather than later. These methods are useless against me."

The Carefree Celestial said, "Wuji, after our actual encounter, you are more terrifying than I thought. I know you held back because you wanted to use me to study what changes would occur after being corrupted by this dark power. But I will make you unable to hold back."

The Celestial Venerable of Freedom should have felt angry, but in reality, his mind remained clear. Although his body, including his celestial platform and primordial spirit, exuded a dark, demonic, and extreme aura, he seemed unaffected by any negative emotions, his mind clearer than ever before.

A long river of time appeared, without beginning or end, boundless and limitless, encircling the body of the Carefree Celestial Venerable, clinging to it as if draping him in a scarf, or adding a halo to him.

Under the influence of the passage of time, the body of the Carefree Celestial Venerable seemed to have been reversed in time, returning to its peak state. This was a secret technique created by the Carefree Celestial Venerable based on the laws of time, used to maintain his own condition and repair himself, capable of healing injuries by reversing time.

Upon returning to his peak, the carefree Celestial Venerable took a step forward, and the laws of time flowed, seemingly converging into a long river beneath his feet. Countless faint, imperceptible forces of law intertwined, disrupting the flow of time.

He raised his hand and unleashed a divine power, as if countless years had flowed within it, as if billions of years had passed in an instant, and the world had turned from sea to land. Under the relentless erosion of time, all that is eternal will decay, and all that is great will be forgotten. Under this divine power, Liang Yu's hair turned white in an instant, as if his lifespan had been directly cut off by the power of time, and he was about to die on the spot.

Liang Yu exclaimed, "Excellent, excellent, excellent! This law of time is indeed terrifying. In this world where no one is immortal, who can withstand the power of time and avoid the inevitable death? Perhaps only those who become immortals in the mortal world can do so."

As he spoke, he finally began to employ new methods. A series of opposing yet unified forces emerged, such as heaven and earth, yin and yang, positive and negative, black and white, purity and turbidity, transforming into countless Tai Chi diagrams. These countless Tai Chi diagrams were merely tiny particles, which together formed the Yin and Yang energies, evolving into a Tai Chi diagram centered on Liang Yu's body.

Amidst the interplay of Yin and Yang energies, a faint aura of chaos permeated the air, seemingly the origin of all things, the beginning of heaven and earth. In that state of chaos born from nothingness, time itself seemed to cease to exist, losing all meaning.

Liang Yu was fully recovered. A constantly evolving Tai Chi diagram appeared in his palm. Yin and Yang energies continuously returned to Tai Chi, generating chaotic energy, and with one strike, he pierced through the Carefree Celestial Venerable once again.

However, the Carefree Celestial Venerable seemed unaffected. With a turn of the halo formed by the River of Time, his condition returned to its pre-injury state, still at its peak. Under this supernatural power, he could fully recover his condition simply by consuming his own Dao power, remaining unharmed indefinitely.

Instead of retreating, he advanced, unleashing countless temporal divine powers once more, generating numerous temporal turbulences in the void. Even the ten pagodas forming the array appeared ancient and weathered, as if baptized by endless years, becoming even more extraordinary.

Liang Yu conjured the power of Yin and Yang in his hands, the laws flowing as if they were the ultimate principles of the Great Dao, unalterable even by time. Soon, the Carefree Celestial Venerable was once again forced into retreat, his body repeatedly pierced, only to be swiftly reversed and restored to invulnerability by the river of time. The Carefree Celestial Venerable seemed to be possessed by a madman, attacking without defending, relying entirely on this divine power to recover his condition. Countless bolts of time power erupted forth; if this were in the outside world, countless galaxies would face annihilation, and countless lives would be reversed back to the day before they were even born.

However, Liang Yu blocked all these supernatural powers without causing any injury, while he himself was shattered countless times.

But his aura did not decline; instead, it rose higher and higher, becoming stronger and stronger.

Then, the River of Time on the surface of the Carefree Celestial Venerable trembled, and in an instant, everything in the world froze, as if the river of time had stopped flowing and returned to complete calm. Even the great array set up by Liang Yu stopped operating. Of the ten pagodas supporting the array, only the Qiankun Creation Pagoda could barely release wisps of chaotic energy to keep itself from being imprisoned, while the other pagodas fell into complete stagnation.

The Celestial Venerable of Freedom actually briefly stopped time in this void! This can almost be considered one of the strongest sealing techniques, since time is the measure of the operation of all things, stopping time is equivalent to stopping all things in heaven and earth, making it difficult for them to operate anymore.

This was not the end. As time turned, the countless divine powers unleashed by the Carefree Celestial Venerable reappeared and erupted together, striking towards Liang Yu.

During the initial battle, countless divine abilities of the Carefree Celestial Venerable were actually blocked by Liang Yu but not completely destroyed. These abilities, under the Carefree Celestial Venerable's time laws, were projected into the future. Finally, after accumulating enough divine abilities, the Carefree Celestial Venerable used a time-stopping sealing technique, unleashing the divine abilities he had left behind at various points in time during this opening.

Of course, time is one of the greatest taboos; those who manipulate time will suffer the consequences. Therefore, the Carefree Celestial Venerable did not target or attack Liang Yu in the future, but instead targeted the void where Liang Yu was located, thus avoiding any potential backlash. However, since Liang Yu never moved, attacking the void naturally attacked Liang Yu as well, with the same effect as targeting Liang Yu himself. These supernatural powers converged, engulfing Liang Yu in the power of countless years.

However, the carefree Celestial Venerable still had a solemn expression, because he sensed that Liang Yu's aura, which had been worn down by the power of countless years, had not declined, but instead began to continue to rise.

Under the impact of the power of time, Liang Yuyun used the Yin and Yang energies to create chaos. This chaotic energy, which is capable of absorbing and evolving all the forces and laws of the world, can even resist the laws of time and the power of years, and even absorb them as its own nourishment.

After all, chaos is the source of all things; it evolves and encompasses everything, including time. At least in the human universe, the law of chaos is the highest priority law.

However, in the original timeline, the supremely enlightened Celestial Venerable was unable to inflict sufficient damage because Ye Fan, having achieved the Great Perfection of His Sacred Body, used the Furnace Nourishing Hundred Scriptures to generate Chaos Power, ultimately leading to his demise. Now, Liang Yu, whom he has encountered, has also used Chaos Power to dissolve all of his time laws and supernatural abilities; it can only be said that fate is playing tricks on him.

(End of this chapter)