Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 34 The Resurgence of the Crape Myrtle
The main reason why the cultivators of Ziwei Star have become like this is that the Corpse Calamity destroyed most of the forces and cultivators of Ziwei Star. However, due to its former status as a transportation hub, countless ancient scriptures and secret techniques have been passed down to varying degrees here.

Although these ancient scriptures and secret techniques are not systematic, they are of a very high level. This means that if you don't study the ancient scriptures, you will be at a great disadvantage during the Five Great Secret Realms; if you do study the ancient scriptures, you will inevitably face the predicament of not being able to connect the Five Great Secret Realms.

As for self-creation, that's a joke. These ancient scriptures come from various ancient deities, and in later generations they would be imperial scriptures. How could an ancient star without even a sage create scriptures that can replace them?
As for the cultivators born during the more favorable periods of the previous hundreds of thousands of years, they could at most create one or two ancient scriptures, but they still couldn't change anything.

Therefore, with no saint appearing for tens of thousands of years, the Ziwei cultivators have generally chosen to preserve their combat strength during the five major secret realms. After all, without the present, there is no future.

Even Liang Yu only began to formally solve this problem after he severed his Dao and opened the Path of All Laws.

Given the harsh environment and scattered lineages, how strong are the cultivators of the Ziwei Ancient Star? At least from Liang Yu's personal perspective, they are quite strong among all the ancient stars in the universe, at least before they became saints.

In the world of Shrouding the Heavens, the more arduous the environment in which a cultivator rises to prominence, the stronger they become.

Just like the Big Dipper, demon kings such as the Crimson Dragon King and the Peacock King were limited by heaven and earth. They reached the second level of the Immortal Platform long ago, but they were never able to sever their Dao. Through long-term honing, they forcibly developed the combat power of the Seven Forbidden Realms.

Those who could become saints in such an environment, like the Old Madman and Jiang Taixu, later showed the potential to become emperors.

In this environment, Gai Jiuyou, who took about a thousand years to attempt the Emperor Tribulation, was praised by Ye Fan as someone who, given the changing times, would surely become an Emperor.

On Ziwei Star, the situation is even more severe. Because the limitations of heaven and earth make it difficult to break through realms, Ziwei Star is full of old cultivators who have been trapped in a certain realm for countless years, desperately honing their extreme combat power and various unique skills.

It can be said that anyone who can cultivate to the Sendai Secret Realm on Ziwei Star at this time is no ordinary person.

Even if you are a genius with a special physique, you can still be killed by the strange and wonderful supernatural powers these people hide if you are not careful.

Their training was unsystematic, but their combat awareness was absolutely top-notch.

Liang Yu grew up in this environment, and at the age of one hundred, he defeated all the masters of the ancient star, defying the heavens to become a saint, becoming the first person in the Ziwei Star in tens of thousands of years.

Such an achievement is extremely rare, not only in today's harsh environment, but even during the heyday of Ziwei Star.

However, after Liang Yu became a saint and stepped into the starry sky, these experiences granted him even greater combat power. It might not have been obvious before, but compared to cultivators from other stars, it gave him a clear advantage.

It was at this time that he discovered that Ziwei Star had never been called the Imperial Star.

That means the title "Emperor Star" must have come from a later era.

From this, Liang Yu deduced that perhaps the Emperor valued the Ziwei Star's central location in the universe, and thus established the Heavenly Court there to rule over all realms. This is why the Ziwei Star was known as the Imperial Star.

After the Emperor's plan to ascend to immortality while outwardly leading his sect to do so, but inwardly intending to sacrifice others, failed, the Heavenly Court fell, and the ancient star Ziwei was also purged.

During the reign of the Immortal Emperor, most traces of the Imperial Heavenly Court were erased, including the Purple Star.

Therefore, although Ziwei Star retains the title of Emperor Star, it can hardly find anything related to the Emperor's Heavenly Court anymore.

It wasn't until the birth of the Yin Emperor and the Sun Emperor that the Ziwei Star regained its former glory.

Furthermore, due to the historical gap in the mythological era and the greater power of other races in the ancient times, the Ziwei Star, where two ancient emperors of the human race were born, was once regarded as the ancestral land of the human race.

Of course, this is just Liang Yu's guess.

Looking at this barren yet familiar ancient star, Liang Yu was filled with emotion. After more than a thousand years, he had finally returned. So many years had passed, and this place remained as lifeless as ever.

At this moment, within the Boundless Immortal Mountain in his palm, the humanoid divine tree looked at Ziwei Star and said, "What kind of lousy place is this? It's a remote and impoverished area; can anyone live here?" Liang Yu smiled and said, "This is my hometown."

The ancient tea tree, gloating, laughed: "How dare you mock the homeland of the Celestial Venerable? What are your intentions? This is a grave offense of disrespect, deserving of execution!"

The humanoid divine tree's eyes darted around, subtly observing Liang Yu's expression, and said, "The Heavenly Venerable is magnanimous and wise; how could he be punished for his words?"

The ancient tea tree sighed, "Alas, even the Heavenly Venerable has likes and dislikes. Your denigration of his birthplace will inevitably make him unhappy, no matter how broad-minded he is."

Even if the Celestial Venerable doesn't care, others will. If anyone can speak disrespectfully of the Celestial Venerable's homeland, where will the Celestial Venerable's authority remain? It seems that this position near the Celestial Venerable's tree will eventually belong to me.”

The humanoid divine tree said fiercely, "You actually dare to try and take my place! I won't give you that chance!"

The ancient tea tree, now enlightened, was in high spirits: "The balance of power has shifted. Once I become the number one tree under the Heavenly Venerable, I will take good care of you."

The humanoid divine tree said quietly, "Actually, I followed the Heavenly Venerable only ten or fifteen days earlier than you. The whole thing about the Heavenly Venerable being close to the tree is a lie. There's no such thing at all."

The ancient tea tree, however, was even happier: "That's wonderful. The Heavenly Venerable has now attained enlightenment, and he will have many more subordinates and followers in the future. You are no longer worthy to compete with me. I am the only choice to be the Heavenly Venerable's close tree. Little tree, just wait for me to take good care of you."

The humanoid divine tree roared in anger: "What did you call me?"

The ancient tea tree, having attained enlightenment, laughed loudly: "Little man tree, little man tree, little man tree! What, are you getting impatient?"

The humanoid divine tree lunged forward: "I'll fight you to the death!"

The two trees started fighting again. Liang Yu shook his head. These two were really incompatible. It hadn't been long before they started fighting again.

Liang Yu formed a hand seal, rapidly drawing upon the power of heaven and earth. The ancient Ziwei star began to recover quickly, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth increased dramatically, and the laws of heaven and earth were repaired and strengthened.

Originally, it would have taken at least tens of thousands of years for Ziwei Star to fully recover and become a renowned ancient star like those in later generations.

But now, Liang Yu has used his supreme power to cause changes in the world, bringing this situation to the foreseeable future.

Next, he traced the stars in the sky, reconnecting the ancient starry paths that had been interrupted.

After becoming a saint, he drifted in the void for an unknown amount of time before encountering a broken node that teleported him to another star system. It was after that he encountered Ying Shenxiao, and they fought a fierce battle to a draw.

If it were someone else with bad luck, even if they cultivated to become a saint, it would take them an unknown amount of time to reach other star regions.

Therefore, Liang Yu specially repaired the ancient road as well, so that the cultivators of Ziwei Star who had improved their strength due to the great changes in the world would have nowhere to leave.

The cultivators within Ziwei Star all sensed this change, and they were overjoyed. For Ziwei was finally about to rise to power.

The hard work and accumulation of these years will burst forth in the changed world.

Because Liang Yu did not conceal his aura, his supreme power was sensed by the cultivators on the Ziwei Ancient Star.

Then, countless cultivators chanted in unison: "Homage to the Supreme Heavenly Venerable!"

(End of this chapter)