The Ancient Saint Emperor of the Heaven-shading

Chapter 316 Lifting the Ceiling, the White Priest

The land of E'tu has been desolate and cold since ancient times.

The entire plateau is vast and boundless. Even if the entire world were to fall, it would be difficult to fill even a small part of it. Even the Dao Ancestor could not reach its end.

Today, in this ancient and ominous ancestral land, a new ceremony is being held to usher in the birth of a new chief priest.

Outside the white coffin, more and more ominous creatures appeared. There were monsters covered in tumors, each tumor a tiny head, bumpy and creepy, making one's scalp crawl. There were also creatures covered in pus, emitting a foul stench, but dozens of strange bones had emerged from their bodies. Beneath their rotting skin were extremely hard and strange bones that were close to the early ancestors of the strange race.

These are the creatures summoned to offer sacrifices for the birth of the new high priest.

The substitute priests stood aside, each exuding a terrifying aura, but they were no match for the Lord of the Burial Pit and became mere supporting characters. In fact, a humanoid outline, very similar to Wang Hongwu, could be vaguely seen in the eye sockets of these people.

“A new chief priest has been born, and the master of the Heavenly Emperor’s Burial Pit has ascended to the position of chief priest of the White Era.”

"He defeated all the other substitute chief priests single-handedly. He deserves this strength and is the strongest Dao Ancestor in the ancient and modern world of Calamity."

In the dark universe, in this vast and eerie land, all races know that a terrifying figure has returned, more ominous and bizarre than they themselves.

From this day forward, he will be the new White High Priest and will take over the entire White tribe.

Upon hearing this news, the other high priests also became interested, some gazing at the ritual site, others making divinations. However, halfway through their divinations, the new generation of Black Blood High Priests exclaimed softly, "Could it be that he created an unparalleled imperial law and has now reached this height, so he is blinded by the secrets of heaven and cannot be sensed by me?"

He realized that the white spell was a true supreme spell, touching upon this realm, which was somewhat incredible. It meant that even without the ominous substance, he could still directly rise up and take over the position of high priest on his own.

"Incredible. Perhaps he will be the most powerful White Priest in history." The Amethyst Priest's expression shifted slightly as he thought of something.

Inside the ceremony site, Wang Hongwu was being blessed by the red and gray chief priests. During this process, he resonated with the Dao, and the magnificent river of time was changing, seemingly about to form a crucial node.

In an instant, gazes fell upon the past and the future, all upon the former powerhouses of E'tu.

"Supreme and unfathomable. For that kind of being, perhaps, when facing the upstream of the river of time, the ancient history is the future, and our present world and future may be the ancient history after he turns around; even what we see today may have already happened in the past, only the past and present are reversed."

The Taoist patriarch sighed, for the various scenes before him were changing. The appearances of Wang Hongwu and the two chief priests, Hong and Hui, had turned into stone carvings, as if it had happened long ago. This also meant that the birth of the white chief priest had become an established fact, imprinted into the history of the Etu Plateau, and no one could change it.

This is the highest divine power; they transcend time and can reverse the past and present. What the world records in the end are only their traces and reflections.

Inside the white coffin, Wang Hongwu and the two chief priests appeared. All around them was an endless expanse of white matter, which sometimes fell like shredded paper, sometimes gathered and undulated as malevolent energy, and sometimes turned into solid ice and frozen soil. These were all the definitions and developments of this matter by the previous chief priests.

Each generation of high priests has its own understanding and manifestation of ominous substances, and naturally there are differences in strength. The higher the time a high priest has accumulated, the stronger he is. Among the nine high priests, the strongest is gold, while the one with the shallowest foundation is still black.

Because he ascended the throne only one era earlier than Wang Hongwu, and was the successor to the previous Yongji.

Wang Hongwu gazed at these white substances. When they came into contact with him, they no longer appeared as shredded paper or malevolent energy, but instead transformed into a light—an exceptionally brilliant, holy, and pure white holy light.

In an instant, pure white holy light enveloped him, and condensed into a huge disc behind him. The entire substance did not feel ominous at all, but instead showed holiness and purity, just like the Lord of Light, the Emperor of Creation, and had already demonstrated his own unique material characteristics.

Upon seeing this, the two high priests, Red and Gray, exchanged a glance, feeling quite surprised. This new high priest was truly extraordinary, displaying many unique qualities.

"Now that you are familiar with this substance, you can begin the transformation ritual. I will protect you from outside. Is there any other question?" the red priest said. Although the breakthrough process is safe, it involves breaking through the ceiling of the evolution path. The new white body integrates five ominous substances. Once it breaks through, it will face five ceilings. Naturally, they must also be wary of accidents.

"The number of chief priests has always been ten. Is there really no way to break this rule? What if someone were to combine ten ominous substances and ten chief priest positions into one person?" Wang Hongwu was very interested in this, because he was on such a path.

"Since ancient times, there have always been ten people who have been unable to break through. As for the ten ominous positions merging into one person, if one can withstand it, there may be an earth-shattering transformation, and one may even be able to touch the domain of the ancestors."

When these words were spoken, even the chief priests fell silent, pondering in their hearts that throughout countless ages, even those who died in battle could be resurrected through their ancestral land. Occasionally, there were exceptions where they were completely wiped out by extremely powerful enemies, but after a long period of time, successors would always fill their places.

However, throughout history, even in the most brilliant era, there have never been more than ten beings at the end of the road in the land of calamity. The number has always remained at ten, and even they themselves do not know why. The progenitor has never explained it.

The realm of the progenitor? Wang Hongwu's expression shifted upon hearing this. At that level, the so-called laws of the Dao were useless to them. All the Dao had been burned away, making them stronger than beings at the end of the road, surpassing them.

Although this level has not far surpassed the realm of Immortal Emperors at an unimaginable height, and may not necessarily form a great realm on its own, and is not yet perfect, if we really want to discuss it, it can be called the Sacrifice Dao.

Burning away rules and order, sacrificing the supreme path, is the true path to sublimation, becoming invincible above!

The Sacrifice Path, also known as the ultimate sublimation, is currently the strongest realm, and only the Pollen Emperor, the Desolate Heaven Emperor, and the ten Ancestors are included in it.

“Now that you understand, we will not delay any longer. After you attain enlightenment, the ancestor will naturally enlighten you and answer your questions.”

After giving their explanation, Hong and Hui disappeared and left the coffin, leaving Wang Hongwu alone there.

"The White Priest transforming the Calamity into a Holy Kingdom would be quite interesting." As soon as the thought arose, he sank into the boundless white substance, letting it envelop him and transform him.

Then, a wondrous Dao flower bloomed from the pure white substance inside the coffin and slowly entered Wang Hongwu's body, causing his bones to emit thunderous sounds and chanting to resound from his flesh and blood, as his primordial spirit resonated with the Great Dao.

This is an astonishing rebirth. At this stage, his strength is increasing rapidly, and a large area of ​​Dao patterns appears on his body. Black, gray, silver, purple and white patterns appear all at once, and they are all made of strange substances.

All five ominous substances that had come into contact with and been contained within the Origin Mother Gold appeared, and Wang Hongwu thus glimpsed parts of their essence. It was as if at the end of the long river of history, five strange creatures stood immortal, the source of the ominousness, the progenitors of strange creatures! In fact, in a daze, he even saw five coffins appearing and disappearing; some ancient coffins were full of vitality, with branches and bright leaves, each leaf capable of bearing the great world formed by the convergence of cosmic clusters; while other ancient coffins were cast from dozens or even hundreds of kinds of Mother Gold, all of them united, surpassing the limits, becoming incredible objects, causing the Great Dao to burn and turn into nothingness in their presence.

There was also an ancient coffin from which white ash flowed out. It was an incredible substance. After it came out of the coffin, it gradually turned into mist and enveloped everything. Immediately, terrible wails and sobbing sounds came from all around, as if some kind of ghost at the end of the road was eroding everything at the source of the river of time.

Layer upon layer, the ceilings that appeared in the field were not just one layer. In addition to the ceilings formed by the five ominous substances of black, white, silver, gray and purple, there were also ceilings of the flesh path, the war master path and the myriad spirits path!
However, these unusual phenomena were concealed by the supreme artifacts, runes, and pollen of the ancestral plant within his body, and no one noticed them.

His breakthrough required breaking through eight shackles simultaneously, which was extremely difficult. However, once he attained enlightenment, he would immediately reach the pinnacle of the path, saving him from the long years of cultivation.

Under this influence, countless substances poured down, causing Wang Hongwu's bones to mutate, his blood to take on other colors, his pupils to turn silver-white, and his hair to emit an evil light. If the ominous creatures of the outside world were to witness this transformation, they would be extremely shocked. Isn't this the baptism they have been dreaming of?

Moreover, this is a supreme baptism! His bones are undergoing a transformation, and his entire body will be transformed into strange bones. This is a characteristic change of the ancestor in his youth. It would be remarkable if an ordinary Dao Ancestor could transform even a part of it, but his entire body is undergoing a transformation.

Furthermore, his blood is also mutating, and his eyes, his hair, and so on all correspond to different extreme ominous forces; all of this indicates that all the ominous substances in the cursed land have come to him, and are about to bestow upon him the highest baptism.

Outside the coffin, both Red and Gray were stunned, realizing that the entire white coffin was submerged in an extremely ominous substance, with Dao patterns flowing around it, extremely complex and profound.

"So popular and favored?" Even they were surprised. In the past, their own transformations had only attracted the blessing of an ominous substance, but this person had directly received the fifth blessing, truly creating a new history.

Five kinds of bizarre baptisms, and the highest level of them, any one of which can give birth to perfect bizarre bones, dark blood, etc. in living beings.

For Wang Hongwu, the transformation of these substances was only to better nourish his origin mother gold. Now, this mother gold has become different. The outer layer is still dreamlike, while the inner layer is mainly white, a sacred pure white that constantly radiates circles of holy light, surrounded by hymns and hymns.

After the baptism was completed, a new change occurred. The world inside the coffin, which was originally white, suddenly became extremely dark, and nothing could be seen. Even the surrounding matter was submerged in mist, as if a cold, ancient scene had reappeared in the world.

All around him, evil spirits roared, but they could not be seen, as if they were wandering in the wild, lingering in the distance; those unpredictable monsters seemed to belong to no one in this world, but rather to ancient spirits from the most ancient times, and they would only approach when the ceiling was lifted!

Everything seemed both real and illusory. Those who sensed the strange atmosphere on the plateau were filled with doubt and surprise, and for some reason, they felt a chill run down their spines.

In an instant, Wang Hongwu seemed to vanish into nothingness, his body almost transparent. He remained in a hazy, indistinct state, and even his image in people's minds became blurred. It was as if he would fade from people's memories, touching upon another realm and world, existing alongside the 'Source'.

"Truly, the younger generation is formidable!" The two high priests noticed this state. Their true bodies were in the present world, but their true spirits might have already wandered beyond the world, to an unknown place, or even no longer belong to this era. They were undergoing the final step of transformation, stepping onto the origin of the path of evolution, overturning the ceiling, and ascending to the highest position.

Just as they said, Wang Hongwu had entered a special world. The eight layers of heaven hanging high above pressed down and directly covered his body, causing a huge collision.

This is the ceiling of the evolutionary path, and he is about to overturn it!
Then, different figures appeared on different ceilings: a peerless warlord surrounded by ten thousand soldiers, the Luo Emperor seated on a throne of nine dragons and five phoenixes, a supreme being whose body contained all things, a figure in purple crystal, a figure that spits out white matter, a monster covered in black blood beast fur, a soul body with silver patterns around its body, and a giant beast shrouded in gray mist.

The eight-layered ceiling materialized, attempting to block his breakthrough. Other humanoid monsters, carrying iron chains, walked towards him step by step, their shadowy forms covered in multicolored fur—more than one type—intending to bind him and then take him away.

At this moment, the heavens and earth trembled violently, all paths resonated in harmony, and countless runes formed a torrent that swept across the land. These were rules, order, and judgment, suppressing Wang Hongwu in every way to prevent him from becoming a new source or ceiling.

He single-handedly fought against eight different source incarnations. Around him, a massive amount of ominous patterns erupted, like lividity on a dead body, one after another. That was the black blood source taking action. These black patterns gathered together and transformed into one hundred and eight black immortal swords, piercing through time and space, all carrying the aura of decay and cursed runes.

"You, the weakest of all, dare to be the first!" Wang Hongwu turned around and smashed all the immortal swords with a punch. He also grabbed the Black Blood Beast and tore it apart on the spot, ripping it apart with a bang.

The other seven sources also rushed over, colliding and unleashing a great battle. They were intertwined like lightning spirals, fighting from one evolutionary path to the end of another system, from the vast ancient history to the rift of time. The entire world was painted a crimson and desolate color, like a world stained with blood. Even the Great Thousand Worlds emerged and began to sink.

This is a true showdown of the titans!

Everyone has absolute control over their own path. To suppress those who come after, one must break through the limits they have created, which is almost impossible. But Wang Hongwu is indeed doing it. He is stronger than the supreme beings at this stage. Five ominous substances nourish the mother gold, and more than a dozen Dao Ancestors nourish his evolutionary path. He directly crushes through!
In their great battle, their respective Dao and Law condensed into divine flowers that bloomed, each capable of suppressing the Dao Ancestor. This transcended the realm and evolved at the highest level, transcendent and terrifying.

Then, as one Great Dao Flower after another bloomed, special phenomena emerged, such as Fallen Immortal Slope, Demon Trapping Cave, Myriad Spirit Ruins, Black Blood Pit, etc. The release of their nine evolutionary paths, each Great Dao Flower's first bloom was accompanied by the resonance of heaven and earth, and the sound of Dao laws colliding.

Heaven and earth were split open, the Great Dao was torn apart, nothing could continue before them, everything was shattered and destroyed, everything was deconstructed.

With a whoosh, Wang Hongwu shattered the source of black blood with a single punch, tearing off the ceiling. As other attacks approached, he manipulated cause and effect, reversing everything. Then, he moved to the source of the physical body, meeting it head-on and forcefully, smashing it to pieces from head to toe. The source of the warlord was also unable to dodge and was shattered by his punch. The source of all spirits was also knocked back by the force of the punch, and Wang Hongwu caught up with it, grabbed it, and tore it in two.

The remaining four sources also failed to escape. The amethyst source was cleaved into eight pieces by the Origin Blade, and its entire remains were assimilated into eight large seals by the Origin Mother Gold, which took turns bombarding it and crushing the silver-patterned source as well. The gray mist behemoth roared, trying to burrow into Wang Hongwu's body and erode him, but he turned the tables and used the Emperor's Law to occupy its body, thus destroying it. The last white source was directly covered and ignited by the Origin Mother Gold, and was cremated into nourishment.

Boom! With a dull thud, he shattered the eight-layered ceiling, soaring upwards to the highest source!
At this moment, he completed his breakthrough, overturning all shackles, breaking through the limits, occupying the origin, and standing tall in the Immortal Emperor's domain, becoming a being at the end of the road.

"It's finished so quickly!?"

Outside the coffin, red and gray colors were unexpected. He had attained enlightenment so quickly that he had already overturned the ceiling, which meant that he had far surpassed those ominous sources at the same level.

boom!
In an instant, dense crimson lightning appeared in the sky and earth, black rain poured down, the void cracked, the rules of heaven and earth exploded, the divine chains of order broke, the Dao patterns quickly extinguished, and then dissipated.

A powerful aura belonging to the Celestial Emperor surged forth like a vast ocean, gradually intensifying and illuminating the heavens.

Then countless great worlds gave rise to bizarre celestial phenomena, which were extremely evil and terrifying. This was the radiation of power, belonging to a kind of Great Dao domain. Such erosion and impact could destroy all things. In the present world, all worlds would become ashes.

In that celestial phenomenon, a blazing white sky rose, becoming the ceiling that enveloped the land of calamity, a great source, where endless magnificent epics and hymns rose and fell, surrounded by thousands of colorful lanterns, surrounding a white figure that appeared and disappeared.

Simply by standing here, he can crush all the heavens throughout the ages, causing all paths of evolution to wail and rise and fall. Everything is unstable because of his existence, and with a single thought, he can cause the rise and fall of the world and control the birth and death of all things.

A new white priest, the supreme being, has been born!
(End of this chapter)