Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 33 Ziwei
Seeing that the ancient tea tree was truly about to consume its essence to transform into immortal liquid, Liang Yu couldn't bear to watch any longer.

How come this ancient tea tree is so... uh, still as pristine as ever?

He slapped the crown of the humanoid divine tree, which was on the back of its head: "Stop messing around and talk properly. If you mess it up, I won't let you off the hook."

The ancient tea tree, having finally realized its mistake, exclaimed, "You tricked me!"

The humanoid divine tree finally couldn't help but burst into laughter: "Go ahead and bite me! Hahahaha, how can there be such an easy tree to fool?"

"I'm not done with you yet!" The ancient tea tree of enlightenment rose up from the ground again, waving its branches and charging over.

The humanoid tree turned and ran, saying as it went, "You can make other people's brains work better, so why can't you make your own brain work better? Oh, I forgot, you're a tree, you don't have a brain, hahahaha..."

The ancient tea tree of Wudao was about to say, "Aren't you also a tree?" but after seeing its appearance, it couldn't say that.

Because the humanoid divine tree actually has a brain!
It held its breath and couldn't exhale, causing countless wisps of white smoke to rise from the entire tree. This was the life essence of the immortal elixir; if an ordinary cultivator smelled it, living an extra 360 years wouldn't be a problem.

"Hey, don't get so angry you'll spontaneously combust! The most important quality for us who make the elixir of immortality is patience!"

The humanoid divine tree was also somewhat shocked by this scene. It was truly an eye-opener; it turned out that plants could also "smoke from their seven orifices."

But because of Liang Yu's warning, he still offered words of comfort, and surprisingly said something truly good.

The ancient tea tree, having attained enlightenment, fell silent and continued its pursuit. Soon, it caught up, relying on its familiarity with the terrain. The two trees immediately began to wrestle, branches and leaves flying everywhere.

Looking at the two divine herbs intertwined, Liang Yu was speechless. Who the hell did they learn this from? And, could the wisdom of the immortal herb really be this high?
However, Liang Yu was too lazy to bother with such trivial matters. Because both trees knew their limits, controlling the damage they caused to each other perfectly.

Of course, it's also possible that they simply lack combat ability and can't inflict much damage.

Liang Yu stepped out of the sacred mountain and used a great supernatural power to pluck stars and grasp the moon, holding the sacred mountain in his palm. Although the sacred mountain was still heavy at this time, it was far from the weight that even quasi-emperors of later generations could hardly lift.

However, the characteristic that it cannot be stored in a magical artifact already exists.

Liang Yu held the sacred mountain up to his face and examined it closely. The Daoist essence within this sacred mountain had not yet fully coalesced and was in a slow growth phase. With sufficient nourishment, perhaps this process would be much faster.

But for it to truly become a sacred mountain on earth, it would take hundreds of thousands of years, which would be during the Primordial Era.

Ye Fan saw a giant stele in the mountains with the words "Not entering reincarnation, immortality is the foundation!" after killing the Stone Queen, but Liang Yu found no stele at all.

Considering that Mount Undying is named after immortality, and that the Immortal Daoist, created by the Immortal Emperor using the power of faith, resides on Mount Undying, Liang Yu speculated that the formation of this mountain may have been influenced and modified by the Immortal Emperor.

But none of that exists now. This mountain has only one name: Wuji Immortal Mountain.

However, thinking about the power of faith, after Liang Yu attained enlightenment, a certain amount of power of faith did indeed gather here in recent days, which he stored in the Qiankun Creation Tower and did not refine into his body.

These powers of faith are incredibly complex, and Liang Yu plans to go into seclusion to study them further after returning to his hometown.

With one hand supporting the Wuji Immortal Mountain, Liang Yu stepped back to his hometown.

Wealth and honor not returned to one's hometown are like wearing embroidered clothes at night—who would know of it!
Liang Yu was born from an ancient star called Ziwei Star, which is an ancient star of great significance in the universe of Shrouding the Heavens.

The later Yin Emperor, Sun Emperor, and Hengyu Emperor all originated from this star. Moreover, this star was also known as the Emperor Star. However, all of this has nothing to do with the current Ziwei Star. In the mythological era, the Ziwei Star was merely an ordinary ancient star that had declined to its lowest point.

According to Liang Yu, Ziwei Star was quite prosperous hundreds of thousands of years ago, and its superior geographical location made it a hub for communication and exchange among multiple star regions.

But then, the Corpse Calamity broke out. Ziwei Star was severely damaged in this catastrophe that swept across the entire universe. The ancient star roads connecting it to other star regions were basically severed, and the major forces that existed on its own territory either relocated or perished.

After Lingbao Tianzun quelled the corpse calamity, Ziwei Star was devastated, and most of its high-level cultivators were wiped out.

Next, Ziwei Star, damaged by the corpse disaster, entered a difficult period where cultivation was impossible.

Over the past hundreds of thousands of years, the Ziwei Star has experienced several ups and downs, but it has never returned to its peak.

When Liang Yu was born, the ancient star Ziwei was in a period of great difficulty for cultivation. In terms of its impact, it was probably stronger than Earth when Ye Fan was born, but weaker than the Big Dipper at that time.

In other words, at this time, the Sages on Ziwei Star had become legends, and the Dao-Slaying Kings were the patriarchs and foundations of various sects, extremely rare in the world.

Liang Yu was the first sage on this ancient star in tens of thousands of years.

Liang Yu himself found it hard to believe that Ziwei Star had fallen into such a state. But after becoming a saint, he searched all the ancient stars and discovered that Ziwei Star truly no longer had a second saint.

Besides the natural environment, there was another reason: inheritance. When Liang Yu was born, all the forces on Ziwei Star were supported by scattered ancient scriptures and secret techniques.

You can search the entire Ziwei Ancient Star and you won't find a single complete ancient scripture; but if you look for any one of the ancient scriptures from the five secret realms, you can find seven or eight.

This resulted in most cultivators achieving success having studied different volumes of different ancient scriptures. The problem that Ye Fan, in later generations, had to piece together different ancient scriptures because there were no complete ancient scriptures to learn from, troubled everyone on the Ziwei Ancient Star.

Liang Yu was no exception. Before becoming a saint, Liang Yu cultivated eight different ancient scriptures in the five secret realms, and even practiced methods for cultivating a single secret realm.

His first complete ancient scripture was the Daoist scripture he obtained on the ancient road in the starry sky, but by then he was already a sage king.

Moreover, even the Daoist techniques and supernatural abilities of Ziwei Star are the same. The major powers all possess a jumble of random techniques that have virtually no connection to the scriptures they cultivate.

These freestyle fighting techniques even contain some forbidden secrets from ancient scriptures, but without the corresponding ancient scriptures, it is basically difficult to exert enough power.

All things considered, the most valuable inheritance on the ancient star is probably the complete Zhe character secret and Xing character secret, as well as the incomplete Zu character secret.

Therefore, it is perfectly normal that when you fight against a cultivator from the Purple Star at this time, the opponent's cultivation techniques and combat spells have nothing to do with each other.

It was under these circumstances that Liang Yu was forced to embark on a path similar to Ye Fan's, yet different, one of unparalleled mastery. This was because he lacked the means to achieve mastery through even a single method.

Ultimately, the concept of "all methods reaching the heavens" arose from Liang Yu's attempt to integrate the various scriptures he cultivated and to perfectly match them with the various supernatural powers and methods he learned that had no relation to the ancient scriptures.

The Douzi Secret was created to some extent because Liang Yu wanted to perfectly integrate and freely transform the various complex techniques he had learned.

It was this environment that forced Liang Yu to take this path.

(End of this chapter)