Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 61 The Art of Dividing the Soul (Seeking First Subscription)
“However, if you really feel bad about it, then you can offer yourself up for me to study. After all, you are definitely the most unique weapon for proving the Dao in this universe.” Liang Yu changed the subject and looked at the Boundless Dao Stele with a smile.

Under Liang Yu's gaze, the Boundless Dao Stele felt as if it had been dissected, its internal secrets gradually being revealed and imprinted on the other party's eyes, instantly filling him with great fear.

It forced a smile and said, "Heavenly Venerable, since the master's wish has been fulfilled, I will submit to the Heavenly Venerable's will."

It's a gamble! Although it's terrified, judging from the behavior of this Boundless Celestial Venerable, he doesn't seem like the kind of person who would go mad for the sake of researching immortality. Even if he were to study itself, it shouldn't suffer too much damage.

The Boundless Dao Stele's greatest ambition was to transform into a celestial artifact. And at this moment, the Desolate Tower, one of the two known celestial artifacts, was right beside Liang Yu.

It's too difficult for it to evolve into a celestial artifact on its own. If it can copy the work of the Desolate Tower, or simply borrow the research results of the Limitless Celestial Venerable, the success rate will definitely be much higher than if it researches it on its own.

Liang Yu said, "Do whatever you want with me? You make it sound like I'm some kind of villain. But if I ask you to leave this place, would you agree?"

The Boundless Dao Stele laughed and said, "Since the Celestial Venerable has already intervened here, then I need not trouble myself. What protection in this world is safer than the Celestial Venerable's attention?"

That's the truth. Liang Yu has already invested so many divine treasures here; he can't just abandon them. Even a Celestial Venerable couldn't accept such a huge sunk cost.

Not to mention, this plan is now almost taking the shape of Liang Yu's. Even if you asked Wuliang Tianzun himself to do it, he wouldn't believe that he had personally arranged this setup.

Liang Yu is going to such lengths to obtain something, so anyone who tries to damage this place before he achieves his goal is considered an enemy of Liang Yu. This is far more effective than the protection of a semi-divine artifact.

Liang Yu said, "Since that's the case, then you should leave this place with me. To truly understand the secrets of the Boundless Heavenly Venerable's military strategy, it's best to compare them with his life's work."

The Boundless Heavenly Venerable stopped speaking, but instead withdrew his divine power, shrunk his size, and entered the Boundless Immortal Mountain.

Even in the end, Wuliang Tianzun himself did not realize that the ancient stele he had personally crafted had acquired a consciousness almost identical to that of a real life.

He was unaware that the deity of the Boundless Dao Stele had long regarded the Boundless Heavenly Venerable who created him as his father and idol.

But at the end of his life, Wuliang Tianzun rejected his old path, which meant he rejected the Wuliang Dao Stele, and instead placed his hopes on this unborn embryo.

Although the Boundless Dao Stele did its best to protect this place and this embryo, it still couldn't help but feel a trace of jealousy and resentment.

He wants to become a celestial artifact, to become a true life form, in order to prove that the path taken by the Boundless Heavenly Venerable in the past was correct.

Moreover, from a certain perspective, he was indeed the final continuation of the life of the Boundless Heavenly Venerable. After all, the embryo had completely erased all traces related to the Boundless Heavenly Venerable.

Liang Yu was of course unaware of the subtle psychology behind the Boundless Dao Stele, since he had not yet begun to study it in detail and therefore had no way of knowing that it possessed such a rich inner world.

Liang Yu did not leave the ancient star of the Primordial World, but instead entered the Wuji Immortal Mountain and took out the numerical secret of the Moral Celestial Venerable.

The Digital Secret is a technique of creating clones. It follows a pattern: the more powerful the clone, the fewer the maximum number of clones it can create, and the shorter its duration.

The later Taoist deity Laozi, who was connected with spirits, possessed a secret technique called "One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones," which allowed him to construct three Dao bodies with the same combat power as his original self using pure qi in a short period of time. This heaven-defying secret technique was enough to unleash a terrifying power to turn the tide of battle at crucial moments.

The so-called "One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones" is actually part of the Numerical Secrets. The complete Numerical Secrets, as the highest achievement in this field, have even more powerful effects.

The biggest drawback of the One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones is its short duration, but the complete Numerical Secrets address this issue. In the Human Body Dao Palace Secret Realm, there are the Forgotten Self and the Dao Self. The Forgotten Self is as if it is in the past, reciting scriptures for this life to ensure its immortality; while the Dao Self is in harmony with the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, as if it is standing in the future, guiding this life.

The Celestial Venerable of Morality used a secret technique to draw upon the power of his former self and his true self, thus enabling him to create two avatars that were almost identical to his original self, and these avatars could exist for a long time.

Thus, although there are at most three versions of oneself including the main body, the duration is greatly increased.

In addition, there are various methods of creating clones without limiting combat strength.

The Martial Saint Emperor once created a secret technique called the "One Transforms into Ten Thousand" technique, which allows one to transform every hair of their body into an external avatar. This avatar not only does not endanger the original body, but can also unleash tremendous destructive power in an instant.

It's unclear whether the Fighting Saint Emperor had studied numerical divination, as there are similar applications within it. Of course, it's also possible that their paths simply crossed unexpectedly.

Liang Yu was studying the secrets of numbers at this time because he had long wanted to create a supernatural power, which was to divide himself into multiple parts in order to cope with the dilemma that he could not cultivate all kinds of methods at the same time.

Of course, he ultimately failed and could only overcome this predicament by relying on his strong comprehension and multitasking talent.

But now, with the numerical secret of the Moral Celestial Venerable and the pre-character secret of the Annihilation Celestial Venerable, he finally has the foundation to create this supernatural power. After all, the former is the supreme secret technique of the primordial spirit, and the latter is the supreme secret technique of the clone.

Liang Yu sat under the ancient tea tree and began to deduce supernatural powers.

His primordial spirit stepped out of the Immortal Platform and hovered above his physical body. Countless divine runes of laws appeared, and Liang Yu's solidified primordial spirit, which was almost identical to his physical body, began to undergo various changes, sometimes dissipating, sometimes regrouping, sometimes transforming into a celestial palace, and sometimes into myriad spirits.

Several years later, Liang Yu's primordial spirit suddenly emitted rays of divine light, and then split into three.

"Is three levels the limit?" Liang Yu asked helplessly.

He combined the secrets of the previous character and the secrets of numbers to create this technique of splitting the spirit, which can divide his primordial spirit into several individuals. Each primordial spirit can do different things while retaining his amazing comprehension. In this way, he can complete various accumulations in the shortest time.

He used to be able to multitask, but now he can multitask, which greatly reduces his time costs.

However, being a nascent being, Liang Yu could only divide his primordial spirit into three parts at most. Although these primordial spirits were weaker, they still possessed extraordinary comprehension, only weaker than when they were whole.

He left a portion of his primordial spirit in this cave on the ancient star of the primordial world, guarding it with the Qiankun Creation Tower and the Origin Heaven Divine Pattern and Limitless Array Pattern he set up, and quietly studied the growth of the embryo within.
He left his second primordial spirit in the Wuji Immortal Mountain, protected by the six Immortal Golden Pagodas and the array patterns in the mountain, to study the regrowth of the humanoid immortal medicine.

The last part of the primordial spirit, along with the main body, traveled through the mortal realm carrying the desolate tower.

However, Liang Yu suddenly realized that he seemed to have collected eight of the nine secrets that had already appeared.

He had already obtained the secrets of the characters Lin, Zhe, and Xing before he attained enlightenment; he obtained the secret of the character Qian from the Heavenly Venerable of Nirvana during a discussion of Taoism in the Underworld; he obtained the secret of the character Zu from the dark primordial spirit of the Heavenly Venerable of Lingbao; he obtained the secret of the number from the Taiji Diagram; he obtained the secret of the character Bing from the Boundless Tao Stele; and he created the secret of the character Dou himself.

Then, with only the "All" secret remaining, he will be the first to collect all nine secrets.

(End of this chapter)