Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 243 Training Program
At this moment, Liang Yu was already calculating the order in which these supreme beings participating in the reincarnation would appear. According to his plan, they would completely end the Mythical Era and usher in the Primordial Era in at most 30,000 to 40,000 years. Of course, they were simply trying to time this cosmic update perfectly. Another reason was that the Primordial Celestial Venerable needed to live another lifetime before he could relinquish the Heavenly Heart Imprint and seal his own Great Dao, so as not to affect future generations.

In the original timeline, the transition from the mythical era to the primordial era in the Great Universe was completed after the Immortal Emperor attained enlightenment. Just as the transition from the end of the Ancient Era to the beginning of the Post-Ancient Era was completed during the reign of the Great Emperor Wushi.

This mythological era did not see the fall of the Heavenly Court, nor was it driven by the Immortal Emperor. Therefore, it will take tens of thousands of years of version updates to transition to the Primordial Era of the Warring States Period where all races vie for supremacy.

When the universe truly begins to change and the next era begins, the Immortal Emperor should make his true debut. The reason they did this was actually to pave the way for the ascension plan and to ensure that the mythical era would truly become an era of ascension in later generations, just like in myths and legends.

However, the Undying Emperor is now Liang Yu's disciple, so his treatment absolutely cannot be poor; he must be given proper training. Having just arrived from the free and peaceful world of the Immortal Realm, the Undying Emperor hasn't fully adapted to his new environment, and a trace of arrogance still lingers in his heart. After all, coming from the Immortal Realm to the mortal world feels like going from a bustling metropolis to a remote mountain village.

Therefore, he somewhat looked down on cultivators born in such remote and impoverished areas. If it were anyone else, they would naturally suffer greatly with such a mindset. However, the Undying Emperor was not only a true immortal spirit, but also possessed extremely high talent. Even if he didn't change his mindset, he could very well easily achieve enlightenment and attain the Dao.

In that case, his mindset would become even more arrogant, and he would find it even harder to tolerate his own situation. Naturally, he would be more likely to take the path of plotting against others to transform himself. After all, in his eyes, all life in the human universe is nothing more than inferior beings. Just as humans do not treat prey and food as equals, the Immortal Emperor would have no qualms about directly plotting against those who come after him.

Therefore, Liang Yu needs to break down his arrogance of considering himself a celestial being and make him treat all life in the human universe as equals. Therefore, he must arrange a few formidable opponents to change his mindset in the shortest possible time.

The Celestial Phoenix Saint Spirit, transformed by the Celestial Fire, could probably rival the Undying Emperor in a direct contest—original versus high-quality replica. After all, while the Celestial Fire was the primordial fire left behind by the true Celestial Phoenix, it is now merely a Saint Spirit that resembles a phoenix.

As the strongest among these reincarnated supreme beings, the Celestial Venerable of Annihilation is someone Liang Yu plans to directly release to confront the Undying Emperor. There's another candidate, though Liang Yu hasn't arranged for him to be involved, but he's also considering it. According to his plan, the Undying Emperor will be born tens of thousands of years later than in the original timeline, allowing him to run into Ning Fei.

Of course, these three are only confirmed at present. If there are other people he likes in the next tens of thousands of years, then he can add more.

After the Immortal Emperor finally attains enlightenment through arduous battles, his mindset will naturally change. Then, when he fails to achieve immortality and eternal life, Liang Yu appears alongside the Primordial Heavenly Venerable, the Moral Heavenly Venerable, and the Spiritual Treasure Heavenly Venerable. At that time, the Immortal Emperor, having attained enlightenment, will naturally be able to better sense their strength and realm.

This achievement—being in the realm of humanity yet no less than that of a true immortal—was enough to make the Undying Emperor relinquish all pride, embrace humility, and begin his journey to immortality. Moreover, with these few figures protecting him, even if the Undying Emperor wanted to transform himself through imperial blood and flesh, he had no chance; he could only rely on himself to continuously transform. In that way, the Undying Emperor's moral education was complete.

After secretly considering his options, Liang Yu turned his gaze to the four unconventional Supremes who had attained Dao: Ying Shenxiao, Sansheng Supreme, Yuanxiang King, and Chuanying. They were all destined for greatness in a new era, so they naturally needed to be properly taken care of.

Liang Yu and the other three said, “You now have two choices. One is that I will directly guide you to another world to continue your cultivation; the other is to continue to seal your future lives, first to pursue enlightenment in the future, and then to pursue immortality and becoming an immortal.” Seeing that the four of them were deep in thought, Liang Yu continued, “You don’t need to be in a hurry. You just need to make a decision within the few thousand years before your blood and qi decline.”

Although the ascension plan has not yet been launched, it has been repeatedly simulated. With Lingbao Tianzun as the chief designer, Mingzun as the assistant, and Liang Yu and Daode Tianzun filling in any gaps, this grand formation can be said to be foolproof. As long as their blood and qi have not declined, they can use the grand formation to activate a certain immortal artifact to enter the strange world.

But they didn't ponder for millennia. These four supreme beings quickly made their decision: to seal themselves away. They chose to first attain enlightenment before exploring the path to immortality. After all, this was a kind of obsession. Of course, the Heavenly Heart Mark did indeed have immense benefits; even a little study of it would be enough to significantly increase one's cultivation.

However, all four of them are affected by the Dao imprints of Liang Yu and Yuanshi Tianzun, and they still need to completely break through these influences through battles and other means in order to attain Dao. After all, in the original timeline, the geniuses of various eras who had interacted with Ye Fan were all affected by this, unable to directly trigger the Emperor Tribulation to attain Dao, and needed to engage in a bloody battle to break through the obstacles.

To be honest, Ying Shenxiao's achievement is a bit too much. His unconventional path to enlightenment, having lived four lifetimes and truly attained enlightenment on par with other unconventional practitioners, is almost too unfair to him to compete with other practitioners for the right to attain enlightenment.

However, thinking of this, Liang Yu passed on the method of becoming an Earth Immortal to Ying Shenxiao, saying, "Since you have decided to attain enlightenment in the next life, I will pass on this method to you. After you attain enlightenment, you will have two choices: to ascend or to become an Earth Immortal."

"Over the years, you have diligently cultivated the Kunlun Immortal Scripture, and you should have learned many of the mysteries of the Kunlun Immortal Mountain. This method of becoming an earth immortal is an alternative path to immortality, and the Kunlun Immortal Mountain can be regarded as a blessed land for earth immortals."

"You are currently the Kunlun Immortal Bloodline with the highest compatibility with Kunlun Immortal Mountain, so the difficulty for you to cultivate this method is not high. However, once you embark on this path, although you can achieve immortality and become an immortal, you will never be able to leave the mortal realm to go to the immortal realm again, and you can only live and die with the universe. So how you choose depends on what you do after you attain enlightenment in the future."

Both of the existing Earth Immortals who used the method of self-severing their supreme beings were the ones who achieved the Longevity Celestial Venerable's success. However, the Longevity Celestial Venerable was manipulated by Liang Yu, who also incorporated the remains of the immortals left in the Immortal Tomb into his body to reduce the rejection of the Immortal Tomb's laws. The current Underworld Emperor was also manipulated by the Underworld Venerable, the true master of the Underworld, to complete the entire process.

Therefore, to become an Earth Immortal, one needs to be a complete and flawless Dao-proving being. Thus, it is extremely difficult for Ying Shenxiao to become an Earth Immortal now, unless Liang Yu and the Underworld Lord intervene to control every step for him. But that would be pointless; since the method for becoming an Earth Immortal has already been proposed, he should still strive for it himself. So, let's wait until he achieves Dao in the future before exploring it on his own.

In any case, these four supreme beings now need to seal themselves away. Therefore, they also disappeared into the universe. With the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill in hand, it's up to them whether they choose to cultivate in seclusion, live another life, and then seal themselves away, or simply seal themselves away directly.

(End of this chapter)