Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 325 Creation Avatar
Time flies like an arrow, and five thousand years have passed in a flash. At this time, the fourth incarnation of Yuanshi Tianzun was already fifty thousand years old. Although he had reached his twilight years, he had not yet reached the point of exhaustion.

After 50,000 years of effort in this lifetime, the Primordial Celestial Venerable's Creation Heavenly Art has finally reached its great perfection. Now, after two lifetimes, his Creation Heavenly Art has also reached the point where it can be separated and exist as a separate physical Dao Fruit. Next, if he wants to continue to improve, he will need a lot of time to cultivate diligently.

His previous separated Dao Fruit merged with the Primordial Banner, forming a clone that became a celestial artifact through the connection between the deity and himself. Because this clone possessed the body of a celestial artifact, it also gained immortality and could continue its arduous cultivation indefinitely.

Therefore, although Yuanshi Tianzun himself has switched to cultivating other paths, his Dao fruit in his first life is still constantly improving, and he does not need to be distracted by comprehending the methods of longevity and transformation. Thus, this Dao fruit is not much different from the Dao fruit of creation he has now cultivated, and they are on par.

If the gap is too large, then integration would require the East Wind to prevail over the West Wind, with the strong directly swallowing up the weak as nourishment.

Although the clone's cultivation efficiency is not as high as the original, it is still constantly improving. Therefore, although the cultivation efficiency of the Dao Fruit that was separated earlier is not as high as that of the original body, it has more time, so it will not fall behind and can still maintain this balance.

The only problem with this method is that it sacrifices the deities within one's own weapon. After all, once the Dao Fruit is fused, these deities cease to exist and become nourishment for this avatar.

As for separating the Dao Fruit, Yuanshi Tianzun was quite adept at it, having done it twice before. In his second incarnation, Yuanshi Tianzun only dared to separate the Dao Fruit in his later years, and then immediately reincarnated into the next life. But now, Yuanshi Tianzun was already very skilled at it and no longer needed to be so cautious.

This was partly due to the complete maturation of the Harmony Flower, which allowed him to conduct further research on it; and partly because the cultivation of the Primordial Celestial Venerable had improved significantly compared to before.

As Liang Yu and Yuanshi Tianzun predicted, the maturation of the Harmony Flower indeed requires millions of years of growth and cosmic changes brought about by the passage of time before it can fully mature.

Long before Yuanshi Tianzun obtained the Harmony Flower, it was already in a state of near maturity. Now, many years have passed since the end of the mythological era, and the new era has fully stabilized. Therefore, the Harmony Flower has naturally matured under this stimulus.

Originally, Yuanshi Tianzun was focused on studying the humanoid divine tree, but the Dao-Merging Flower suddenly matured, and the Kunlun Sacred Realm began to tremble as a large amount of its essence was extracted.

Fortunately, the Primordial Banner acted in time, using the Source Technique to draw upon the essence of heaven and earth so that the Harmony Flower could obtain the energy it needed to grow, without draining the Kunlun Sacred Realm dry.

Upon maturing, the Dao-Merging Flower flashed with light, attempting to break through the void and escape. However, with the Primordial Celestial Venerable right beside it, it naturally had no chance of escape. In fact, the Primordial Celestial Venerable didn't even need to make a move; the world barrier and array patterns surrounding the Kunlun Sacred Realm were enough to trap it, preventing its escape.

Therefore, Yuanshi Tianzun took the Hedao Flower, which had given up struggling, and conducted further research on it, thus gaining a deeper understanding of separating and condensing one's own Dao Fruit.

At this moment, Yuanshi Tianzun was already confident. The laws within his body continued to condense, drawing from every corner of his physical body, primordial spirit, secret realm, origin, and so on, and finally all gathered at the center of his brow. A child, just like Yuanshi Tianzun in his childhood, jumped out from his celestial platform.

If the Primordial Celestial Venerable wished, this Dao Fruit could even possess its own consciousness, just as if the Primordial Celestial Venerable in his youth had reappeared. This time, the Primordial Celestial Venerable didn't even need to fuse it with the Cauldron of All Things to form an avatar to allow this Dao Fruit to continue existing and moving freely. However, in order for this Dao Fruit to continue its arduous cultivation and progress, this avatar was still necessary.

The little girl separated from the Ruthless Great Emperor in later generations was roughly the same, but the Ruthless Great Emperor was more radical, stripping away a significant portion of his true spirit when separating his Dao Fruit, resulting in him being in a dazed and confused state for a long time. It is precisely because of this that the little girl is so extraordinary.

Of course, unlike the Ruthless Great Emperor, the Primordial Celestial Venerable didn't need to wait for a similar flower in the mortal world, nor did he need to use this Dao Fruit to refine his heart in the mortal world. He only needed to condense a physical Dao Fruit for future cultivation. Therefore, he naturally didn't need to separate his primordial spirit and true spirit.

The Primordial Celestial Venerable summoned the Cauldron of All Things, and due to its special material, it felt even more unique after transforming into a celestial artifact. The Primordial Celestial Venerable placed the Infant Dao Fruit into it, merging it with the divine being.

Ultimately, the infant grew against the wind and transformed into a divine embryo like the Primordial Celestial Venerable, and the Origin Cauldron of All Things thus transformed into the second avatar of the Primordial Celestial Venerable.

The divine embryo within the Primordial Banner was like a supreme and domineering god, each strike seemingly capable of splitting the heavens and earth, possessing ultimate power; now, the divine embryo within the Cauldron of All Things is infinitely changeable and all-encompassing, seemingly capable of creating all things and evolving all laws.

As for Yuanshi Tianzun himself, although he is still a multi-incarnation Tianzun, he is now a pure blank slate devoid of any laws. Even the divine body of creation he previously acquired has vanished. In other words, he has returned to a mortal state.

This time, when Yuanshi Tianzun separated the Dao Fruit, he precisely extracted the essence of his own divine body of creation, returning it to its mortal form. All the special laws and divinity within his body were then integrated into the Dao Fruit. Therefore, this Dao Fruit is naturally more complete and more like a person than the previous one.

Therefore, even though the deity within the Myriad Origin Cauldron, which is not his natal divine weapon, is not entirely in harmony with the Primordial Heavenly Lord, this avatar of his is still perfect enough.

This, of course, comes from the research findings of Yuanshi Tianzun on the human-shaped divine tree.

The reason why Yuanshi Tianzun borrowed this object was to study the essence of physical evolution. Although the predecessor of this humanoid divine tree is unknown, it must have been a human, and a mortal human at that.

Therefore, the humanoid divine tree that he transformed into after his fall contains the mysteries of the mortal body, and it can even be said to contain the essential mysteries of the human race.

Over the years, Yuanshi Tianzun, like Liang Yu, has also comprehended, through the help of the humanoid divine tree, that all special physiques are essentially the result of partial enhancements based on mortal bodies.

It is precisely because of this that Yuanshi Tianzun was able to separate all the origins of the Creation Divine Body from his own origin. Therefore, Yuanshi Tianzun's Creation Dao Fruit is the result of his multifaceted research and integration.

(End of this chapter)