Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 9 Breaking into the Forbidden Zone

Liang Yu secretly resolved to kill, and extracted the killing intent from his primordial spirit, sealing it within the Qiankun Creation Tower.

This is the method used by the Azure Emperor in later generations. If a killing intent is released and the goal is not achieved, the person will fall into a deep sleep and live on forever. Even if the physical body dies, it will exist for a long time before dissipating.

Liang Yu did this as a precaution. If he failed in his transformation in one of his lifetimes, this killing intent would automatically seek out those people taken away by the Cangshan Supreme. Once it discovered they were causing havoc on the world, the killing intent would eliminate them. If not, this killing intent would probably disappear completely within tens of thousands of years after his death.

The Heavenly River Divine Realm was deserted, but most of its resources remained. To be on the safe side, the Supreme Being of Cangshan only took a very small portion of the resources and his Dao-proving treasure.

Most of the resources in the secret realm were of little use to him, so Liang Yu didn't bother to take them. However, an immortal elixir and some eternal blue gold in the center of the divine realm were exactly what Liang Yu needed at the moment.

To Liang Yu's surprise, this elixir of immortality was actually the Emperor's humanoid elixir of immortality! This elixir could be either a herb or a tree, and was currently in tree form, with nine-colored divine light flowing around it, quite mystical. Perhaps, in the original timeline, the Emperor had broken through this forbidden zone to obtain this elixir of immortality.

Its destruction likely occurred after the Emperor's failed attempt to ascend to immortality, and was subsequently caught in the ensuing great war. It's possible that the Carefree Celestial Venerable or other supreme beings in the Sea of ​​Reincarnation obtained the core of the humanoid elixir of immortality during this great battle.

Although Ye Fan later possessed more than one immortal elixir and had studied them in depth, it was ultimately the rebirth process of this humanoid immortal elixir that helped him live out his fourth life.

This may indicate that this elixir of immortality has extraordinary effects on humans.

Although Liang Yu had just attained enlightenment and, due to his divine body's enlightenment, could live for approximately 20,000 years in this lifetime, obtaining this immortal herb was truly a stroke of incredible luck.

Perhaps, like Ye Fan, Liang Yu could also live another life by studying this elixir of immortality, and since its fruit can also grant another life, it would be like getting two birds with one stone.

The humanoid immortal elixir was quite unceremonious, taking the initiative to follow Liang Yu before he could even speak, and even directly entered Liang Yu's body, using his life spring to nourish itself.

Having the divine medicine at hand and having two lives felt wonderful. Liang Yu's pagoda moved, absorbing the remaining pieces of Eternal Blue Gold into it.

Ye Fan forged nine precious cauldrons with nine-colored immortal gold, which, when combined, directly transformed into an immortal artifact. He then fused the Cauldron of the Mother Qi of All Things with these nine-colored immortal cauldrons to create an unparalleled immortal artifact.

Although Liang Yu can't do it now, it's better to be prepared. He should accumulate more immortal gold first, so that he might be able to create an ultimate ten-in-one supreme immortal tower in the future. After all, this eternal blue gold is already enough to refine a pagoda.

This Heavenly River Divine Realm is an independent small world located at the center of countless stars, encompassing all creation within it. However, with gain comes loss, which has led to the stars within this vast realm all losing their brilliance, making it difficult for most to give birth to life, and even the ancient stars that do have life find it extremely difficult to cultivate.

Upon closer inspection, Liang Yu discovered numerous traces of human intervention. Originally, a life-bearing ancient star should have formed here, but under the influence of these seven supreme beings, not only did the ancient star disappear, but a large portion of the essence of the surrounding galaxy was also absorbed.

He sighed and muttered to himself, "Go back to where you came from."

He used extraordinary methods to restore the situation here, reversing the flow of spiritual energy and the essence of the sun and moon. Even the Heavenly River Divine Realm collapsed as a result, turning into nourishment to replenish the stars that had been exploited for countless years. A life-bearing star was also rapidly generated from the ruins of this small world under his methods, and various resources left over from the previous divine realm were buried into the star.

Looking at the vibrant life emerging in this starry sky, Liang Yu casually imprinted the inheritance of the Divine Transformation Technique, the Fighting Character Secret, the Approaching Character Secret, and the Pathfinder Character Secret, leaving them for a destined person to unlock, before turning and leaving.

Next stop, the Ancestral Land of the Holy Spirit. At this time, the Ancestral Land of the Holy Spirit was not yet on the Big Dipper Star, nor was it called the Heavenly Broken Mountains.

The five continents that Wuliang Tianzun created using the body of the Chaos King Bo have not yet fully stabilized, and the Big Dipper has not yet formed a habitable environment. It is unknown whether there were any living beings on the Big Dipper before this, but large-scale migrations and settlements by various races will not occur until the Primordial Era.

The Big Dipper is now uninhabited, and even the forbidden zones for life are not located there. After all, the path to immortality through the Big Dipper dates back to the post-primordial era, while this is the age of mythology. Therefore, the ancestral land of the Holy Spirit is no exception; it is currently located on the ancient star of the Mysterious Vault.

As for its name, the Heavenly Fracture Mountain Range got its name because the peaks of those mountains, which were level with the sky, were all swept away by the Ruthless Great Emperor with a single sword strike. Before that, this ancestral land was actually called the Profound Sky Divine Mountain. When Liang Yu arrived outside the Profound Sky Ancient Star, the Holy Spirits there were on high alert, each of them making no attempt to conceal their aura, seemingly as a show of force.

"Hmm, there are three more Holy Spirits who have attained enlightenment? That's strange. How come there are so many more enlightened beings in this mythological era than I imagined?"

Liang Yu stroked his chin and muttered to himself.

In later generations, there were only a few Holy Spirits who attained enlightenment: one Stone Emperor, one Spirit Emperor, one Immortal Tear Green Gold Emperor, or perhaps the one killed by the Ruthless Man.

But now, including Ziji who died at his hands, there are four who have committed suicide. If we include those who died in meditation before and those killed by other Dao-proving practitioners, there might be even more.

I initially thought there wouldn't be that many Supreme Beings from the Mythical Era, but it seems the opposite is true. This period not only includes ancient Supreme Beings left over from before the Mythical Era, but also the accumulation of millions of years from the Mythical Era. The total number of all self-severed Supreme Beings in the entire universe is probably unimaginable.

In later generations, almost no supreme beings from before the mythology era remained in the various forbidden zones, and even the ancient supreme beings from the mythological era were not many.

The reasons for this are threefold: first, the issue of lifespan; second, the deaths and injuries suffered while attempting to ascend to immortality; and third, the persecution by successive generations of Daoists.

Without a doubt, the Emperor and the Undying Emperor played a significant role in this matter. The former annihilated many Supreme Beings of the Forbidden Zones and spearheaded a sect-wide ascension to immortality, killing several more after its failure; the latter not only pacified the Forbidden Zones during his reign but also triggered the Primordial God War, resulting in the deaths of another group.

But these things haven't happened yet, so the number of Supremes is somewhat beyond Liang Yu's imagination.

Liang Yu looked around with divine light and discovered that among the remaining three Dao-proving Holy Spirits, one was a Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold Spirit, one was a Stone Man Holy Spirit, and the other was actually a Defective Holy Spirit who used the Heaven-Mending Technique to make up for his innate defects and thus attained Dao.

Liang Yu recalled the Holy Spirit who was sealed in an ancient well to brew wine after being killed by the Moral Celestial Venerable. This Holy Spirit carried the inheritance of the Heaven-Mending Technique, allowing prematurely born Holy Spirits to replenish their innate qualities. This shows that even in the mythological era, the Heaven-Mending Technique of the Holy Spirit clan had not been lost. Perhaps it was the major wars of later generations and the ruthless individuals' annihilation of the Holy Spirit ancestral land that led to the complete extinction of the Heaven-Mending Technique.

Without a doubt, the Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold One with spiritual power is the strongest. However, unlike the Immortal Tear Green Gold Emperor that Ye Fan encountered in his later life, it did not manage to live a second life and reach the Heavenly Emperor level of combat power.

Even so, this immortal golden body is still incredibly terrifying, and even Liang Yu in his current state would probably find it difficult to gain the upper hand.

Besides these three enlightened holy spirits, there are six other holy spirits who are equivalent to other forms of enlightenment and reach the Great Perfection. The holy spirits below them are not worth mentioning.

As Liang Yu watched the nine surging auras, he expressionlessly took out the Desolate Tower, suspended it above his head, and then stared at the Xuanqiong Ancient Star, a hint of killing intent emanating from him.

The nine holy spirits were momentarily stunned, completely overwhelmed by Liang Yu.

Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold Supreme sighed helplessly and said loudly, "We have failed to greet the Heavenly Venerable from afar, and we have been impolite. We hope the Heavenly Venerable will forgive us."

The auras of the other Holy Spirits also dissipated, after all, they did not intend to fight each other, but only to demonstrate their strength to prevent Liang Yu from going too far.

A Celestial Venerable of near-Emperor level, clearly stronger than the average Dao Proving cultivator, wielding one of only two immortal artifacts in the world—the Desolate Tower—how could anyone possibly deal with such a figure? Without external intervention, even if Liang Yu were to force his way in, they would be helpless. As long as his demands weren't too outrageous, they would have no choice but to tolerate it.

After all, the Holy Spirit Clan, aside from other things, certainly doesn't lack things like Immortal Gold and Divine Elixir.

After the Heavenly River Divine Realm, he was able to get gold coins from the Holy Spirit Ancestral Land again. Liang Yu couldn't help but smile.

(End of this chapter)