Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 78 Kunlun Shattered

A raging Dao fire erupted from Zhulong's body, and the terrifying power of Dao transformation not only ignited himself but also set Kunlun Immortal Mountain ablaze.

Liang Yu's strength is too great. Although he is still in the realm of humanity and is still a Dao Prover, his strength is on a completely different level from mine.

He, Zhulong, once reigned supreme over the world, invincible throughout the universe, suppressing an era; he also defeated all heroes, protected the common people, and created a prosperous age.

Furthermore, he was the strongest of the nine supreme beings in the history of the Kunlun clan. Even among those who attained enlightenment, he was considered superior.

Therefore, Zhulong has always been proud, and he has confidence that is no less than anyone else's, even if the other party is a Daoist.

Later, he cut himself, severing his courageous and diligent Dao heart; still later, under the threat of death, he began to secretly prolong his life with the essence of living beings, degenerating into an existence like those dark sovereigns.

But even now, he still possesses a pride that rivals that of others. If he were to reach the pinnacle of enlightenment, even the most accomplished practitioners of his time would be no match for him.

Then, the Supreme Celestial Venerable crushed it all to dust. Everything he relied on was a joke to the other party.

Only after meeting Wuji Tianzun did Zhulong truly understand the feelings of those who had been defeated by him and had no hope of catching up with him.

Although he had met the Celestial Venerable of Morality before, the other party had not made a move;

The Underworld Lord proved his Dao through his corpse and created the Origin Technique. Later, he even founded the Underworld, influencing an era. However, he had no direct conflict with Kunlun, so Zhulong never saw him make a move.

Lingbao Tianzun was active for a long time in order to quell the corpse calamity and passed through Kunlun several times, but only in a hurry.

Therefore, although Zhulong knew that these three Celestial Venerables were very strong, and possibly even stronger than he was at his peak, he never truly grasped the reality. His inherent pride prevented him from accepting this fact; after all, how could he know he was inferior if he hadn't fought them?
But Wuji was different; he had truly fought against him. Therefore, he deeply felt this obvious gap in skill, and the sense of defeat was etched into his very soul.

No matter what reasons he gave, he couldn't change the fact that he was far inferior to Wuji. In this situation, a peculiar emotion arose within him; he knew it was jealousy. Driven by this emotion, he was determined to kill Wuji no matter what.

Thus, even a seeker of truth like him began to band together for mutual support, placing his hopes on the combined strength of many. In order to kill Liang Yu, he lowered his standards once again.

However, even though he had already used such an ugly method, he was still being forcefully killed by the other party.

Seeing Liang Yu's confident demeanor, his anger flared even more. Although he was already in a very undignified state, he still couldn't suppress his malice towards Liang Yu.

Even if I die, I won't let you have an easy time.

With this twisted mentality, Zhulong neither dodged nor evaded, allowing the Heaven-Opening Seal to completely cleave him from top to bottom, thus buying himself a moment.

In that instant, as he transformed into the Dao, he used the resonance between the Kunlun Immortal Blood and the Kunlun Immortal Mountain to pull the Kunlun Immortal Mountain into the power of transformation, causing it to perish along with him.

Liang Yu looked at the Candle Dragon, which had transformed into firewood and allowed the Dao Flame to blaze across Kunlun Immortal Mountain, and sighed. He muttered to himself, "Candle Dragon, oh Candle Dragon, even at the end you still want to cause me trouble. You're really difficult to deal with."

He looked at the Kunlun Immortal Mountain in front of him, which had returned to its original size due to the death of Zhulong, and felt a little regretful. The immortal mountain was damaged.

At this moment, the immortal mountain, almost the size of a planet, stretched across the starry sky, and its original immortal light began to dissipate continuously, greatly weakening its near-immortal aura.

Two extremely deep cracks appeared on the once majestic mountain, as if they were about to cut it into three sections. Around these two large cracks were countless smaller cracks of varying depths. These cracks were damage inflicted by Liang Yu during his battle with the Kunlun Immortal Body.

Although Liang Yu had withdrawn some of his forces to minimize the damage to the sacred mountain, he still inflicted heavy losses on it.

Furthermore, the immortal mountain was still engulfed in raging flames of transformation, constantly reducing all traces of Dao, laws, and immortal energy to nothingness. It could be said that this immortal mountain was already on the verge of destruction.

These Transformation Flames are ignited by those who have attained enlightenment in the Ultimate Dao realm, using themselves as fuel. They are powerful enough to incinerate everything, both tangible and intangible, and even other enlightened beings would have to retreat upon seeing them.

But Liang Yu did not flinch, instead treating it as nothing. He stretched out his hand, and countless runes and divine light intertwined, creating a world that resembled an eternal, immortal, and infinitely bright divine kingdom, taking Kunlun Immortal Mountain into his palm.

Countless flames roared and spread, seemingly burning through this world. Yet, though the flames were not far from the boundary, they could never touch it, as if this mere foot away was an eternal separation.

After Kunlun Immortal Mountain was taken away, Liang Yu used the Source Technique to induce the earth energy of its dragon vein to shrink inward to protect himself, abandoning part of the surface mountain that had been completely destroyed.

Then, countless divine lights descended, transforming into streaks of sword light. Liang Yu once again activated his Dao-Unraveling Divine Power, precisely separating these countless Dao-Transforming Flames from the immortal mountain, forming a sea of ​​fire.

Of course, in the process, a layer of the immortal mountain was also sheared off, leaving it bare. However, the original vegetation and various spiritual herbs of the immortal mountain were completely destroyed by the Dao Fire, so it was actually insignificant for Liang Yu to peel off the outer layer.

Liang Yu stretched out his other hand and grasped the sea of ​​fire formed by countless Dao-transforming flames in his palm, taking it out from his divine kingdom. The flames rolled in, but they could not harm his physical body in the slightest.

Liang Yu looked at the flame that had been compressed into a ball in his palm, opened his mouth and blew, and a divine wind extinguished it, making it disappear without a trace.

Even the Dao-transforming fire transformed from the Dao-proving master himself could not harm him in the slightest. This was enough to make any Dao-proving master feel despair and regard him as a god.

Even though Liang Yugong possessed extraordinary abilities and was a master of creation, the Kunlun Immortal Mountain still succumbed to the strain during this series of events and broke into three sections.

Is this the number one immortal mountain in the universe going to be destroyed? That would be a terrible waste.

Liang Yu continued to observe the Kunlun Immortal Mountain and found that the situation of countless immortal energies dissipating and the source constantly being lost seemed familiar.

Isn't this Mount Tai? It's just that Mount Tai's peak, which manifested the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin formation, was cut off. The same is true for Kunlun Immortal Mountain; it's probably because the central Immortal Pool was destroyed.

He shifted his gaze to the center, and sure enough, one of the large cracks ran directly through the core Kunlun Immortal Pool. In other words, the Kunlun Immortal Pool at the heart of the immortal mountain had split open, and now the two halves of the pool were located within the two completely separated sections of the mountain.

If left unattended, Kunlun Mountain will eventually lose its essence and return to ordinariness, just like Mount Tai in later generations.

However, Liang Yu happened to be the second most skilled practitioner of Origin Techniques in the universe. Therefore, he immediately used Origin Techniques to mobilize the dragon veins and earth energy within the mountain and activate the special Dao traces contained in the mountain, locking the three sections of the immortal mountain and preventing its essence from leaking out.

Whether it was Kunlun Immortal Mountain's way of protecting itself or simply an accident, Liang Yu discovered that the original dragon vein of Kunlun Immortal Mountain was actually divided into three parts, each located in a different section of the mountain.

Two of the mountain sections contain half of the Kunlun Immortal Pool, while the third of the mountain section without the Kunlun Immortal Pool contains a divine spring. Perhaps it is because part of the dragon vein nourishes this divine spring that some dragon veins originally converged around this point.

It seems there is still hope for saving it. However, it's uncertain whether these three sections of the mountain can be pieced back together. Or perhaps, from now on, Kunlun Mountain will be divided into three separate peaks?
However, even if it can be repaired, how long will it take? Won't this destroy the Myriad Origin Cauldron altogether? If the Myriad Origin Cauldron is gone, then the Azure Emperor's incarnation...

But it doesn't really matter, since so many things have changed since Liang Yu was born, one more won't make a difference.

Although it was a bit of a pity, Liang Yu didn't take the damage to Kunlun Immortal Mountain too seriously. Didn't the Underworld Lord want to study Kunlun Immortal Mountain and open this immortal treasure? Then let him do some work and repair Kunlun Immortal Mountain.

For Liang Yu himself, if he could restore Kunlun Immortal Mountain to its current state, his Origin Technique would likely reach an unparalleled level.

(End of this chapter)