Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 66 Bottleneck
About a quarter of Liang Yu's primordial spirit is now observing and studying the embryo beneath the Thunder Swamp, another quarter is observing the rebirth of the humanoid immortal elixir, and the remaining half has been broken down into thousands of parts, gathering around his main body.

Liang Yu had his divided primordial spirits sit on the branches and leaves of the ancient tea tree of enlightenment, and instantly the tea tree, which was more than ten meters tall, was covered with small figures.

Using the effects of the ancient tea tree, they began their own cultivation and deduction.

Now, Liang Yu has countless scriptures piled up here, and he must digest them completely in the shortest possible time to achieve the great success of the Path of All Laws Connecting Heaven.

These ancient scriptures and secret techniques are essentially a collection of texts left by most of the supreme beings of the Chaotic Ancient Era and the Mythical Era, as well as many unorthodox cultivators who achieved enlightenment but made significant contributions in certain areas. These materials alone could form a grand compendium of cultivation from the Mythical Era.

These ancient scriptures and secret techniques encompass a wide variety of fields, including the Five Elements, Yin and Yang, thunder, destruction, life, reincarnation, stars, and even methods focused on external objects, such as array patterns and weapon crafting.

These things are incredibly diverse, all-encompassing, and extremely complex. Let alone mastering them all, even completing the cultivation of just one type would be astonishing.

Liang Yu's goal, however, was to integrate all of these into his own methods, truly achieving a state of universal mastery. This was originally an impossible feat, but Liang Yu was now able to use the Mystic Splitting Technique to divide his primordial spirit, creating countless versions of himself to simultaneously deduce these secret techniques, greatly accelerating this process.

Moreover, Liang Yu doesn't actually need to master all of these things. Because in this process of constantly integrating all methods, he will gradually approach the essence of the Dharma. As long as he can grasp this essence, he will have succeeded; the remaining methods will naturally arise without special cultivation.

During this process, countless divine runes of laws reappeared on Liang Yu's body. These seemingly unrelated Taoist magic and supernatural powers were gradually integrated into him. Countless immortals and ancient gods emerged from his five secret realms, chanting scriptures in unison.

What's peculiar is that although each figure was reciting completely different content, the countless voices mixed together did not create chaos, but rather combined to form a new supreme Taoist scripture.

Amidst this astonishing momentum, a mysterious and terrifying Dao fruit is about to be born.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, another 24,000 years have passed. Liang Yu still has the vitality of the sea, but he finally shows signs of aging that he can no longer hide.

The lifespan gained through the elixir of immortality and the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill is roughly equivalent to your previous lifespan. Even if you continuously strengthen yourself like the Celestial Venerable of Morality during this process, it is difficult to significantly extend your lifespan.

However, if one were to live a life in reverse, both combat power and lifespan would increase significantly. In this life, Liang Yu relied on refining the divine blood essence to accelerate the growth of immortal essence, thus completing his transformation. Therefore, his lifespan is much longer than the 22,000 years of his previous life.

Liang Yu roughly estimated his own condition and concluded that he could probably live for another one or two thousand years in this lifetime. In other words, his maximum lifespan in this lifetime could reach about thirty thousand years.

The reason he woke up at this time was that his cultivation had reached the end of a certain stage and he needed to reintegrate his path.

First, there was the primordial spirit he used to study the humanoid immortal elixir. Although the humanoid elixir simply grew anew, unlike the one in Ye Fan's hands which nearly died and then miraculously reborn, Liang Yu still gained a great deal from it.

This humanoid immortal elixir was transformed from an ancient immortal, and not just any ordinary immortal. Its form alone revealed it to be a human immortal king. From this elixir, Liang Yu could glimpse the true nature of humanity.

Secondly, there's the embryo beneath Thunder Swamp. The corpse of Boundless Heavenly Venerable and the trunk and fruit of the humanoid elixir of immortality have been completely digested. This embryo has truly been born, and now it just needs to grow slowly.

Thanks to the blessing of the humanoid divine medicine, the embryo indeed became a congenital Dao body, just as Liang Yu had predicted. Of course, this congenital Dao body was just a fancy name. In essence, it was just a mortal body untouched by worldly affairs, with all its attributes maxed out.

His main path of universal enlightenment has already reached its limit, but it still lacks an ultimate transformation.

In his later years during his third incarnation, the Celestial Venerable of Morality pushed his Tao and Dharma to a new extreme, and ultimately, through a postnatal transformation, he lived out his fourth incarnation as the Supreme Immortal.

His achievement not only transformed himself but also inscribed the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, making it a part of the laws. The Supreme Immortal Body of later generations essentially arose from the replication of the Dao Fruit of the Moral Celestial Venerable's incarnation by the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth. Liang Yu was also at this juncture. What he needed was to imprint his own Dao Fruit of perfecting all laws into the depths of his origin, and then deduce a completely new physique from nothingness. In this process, he would undergo another transformation, living out his third incarnation.

And the wonders represented by this constitution will be forever engraved between heaven and earth.

The Celestial Venerable of Morality is a mortal being, so he is actually less restricted in this process.

In his eighth incarnation, Ye Fan severed his original sacred body and transformed into a mortal body, revealing the profound truth that the mortal body is the fundamental reality.

The Celestial Venerable of Morality did not have such an understanding, but since he himself was a mortal body that was constantly transforming and evolving, he actually conformed to this ultimate principle, and thus the problem of transforming into a Supreme Immortal Body was completed very smoothly.

Although Liang Yu knew this theory, he only knew the facts but not the reasons behind them. Therefore, his research on the origin of divine blood in his first life was actually an attempt to verify this conclusion.

However, it now seems that Ye Fan's theory may originate from his research into the humanoid elixir of immortality, which allowed him to live a fourth life. After all, the humanoid elixir of immortality is actually the manifestation of a true immortal.

And Liang Yu did indeed glean the essence of humanity from the humanoid elixir of immortality. Furthermore, the birth of that embryo reenacted the mysteries of humanity, creating a perfect parallel with the rebirth achieved through the humanoid elixir of immortality.

Compared to what is gained in this process, the progress of Source Arts becomes insignificant.

Liang Yu's path to mastery of all methods happens to be related to these achievements. If he wants to deduce a special constitution, he needs to have a very deep understanding of the origin of constitution.

In his first life, he had already comprehended the origin of divine blood. In his second life, he further deciphered the mysteries of humanity through the elixir of immortality in human form and the embryo beneath the Thunder Swamp. These accumulated insights once again came into play at this moment, helping him create a method to transform into a new physique.

All I can say is that this kind of interconnected and step-by-step path of cultivation is good, as each step paves the way for the next, and the whole process is a natural progression.

If Liang Yu hadn't already been aware of this information, he probably wouldn't have been able to arrange these cultivation steps so appropriately.

If things continue like this, Liang Yu may soon be able to grasp all the secrets of physical constitution and thus truly understand why the mortal body is the foundation of everything.

Liang Yu withdrew all his primordial spirits, merging them back into one. After years of cultivation, his primordial spirit had even begun to possess a kind of immortality and indestructibility. At this moment, even the Celestial Venerable of Nirvana, who created the Pre-Word Secret, was far inferior to him in terms of the strength of his primordial spirit alone.

Of course, although Liang Yu also created a secret technique for cultivating the primordial spirit, the old problem remained: the difficulty was too high. Most of the secret techniques he created required extraordinary comprehension, making the threshold too high.

Perhaps only when he truly returns to simplicity and the ultimate truth will he create ancient scriptures and secret techniques that are applicable to the vast majority of people and perfectly embody his Daoist attainments.

However, Liang Yu still wants to continue down this path.

After his primordial spirit merged with his body, he entered the Sendai again. Every inch of his physical body began to become transparent, revealing the most microscopic constituent particles.

Under his meticulous control, countless divine runes of laws were continuously integrated into these tiny particles, transforming his entire body with the supreme mysteries of the Path of All Laws, gradually forming a completely new physique.

This process lasted for five thousand years.

(End of this chapter)