Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 364 The Fourth Generation of the Immortal Emperor

Through years of research, the Immortal Emperor fully discovered the various wondrous aspects of the power of faith. It can not only turn lead into gold and transform the rotten into the miraculous, but it can also create things from nothing and directly create life.

This power, though seemingly derived from an intangible and elusive belief, can, when gathered together, alter reality and create something from nothing.

During the 80,000 years of his three reigns as the Undying Emperor, he spent most of his time researching the power of faith. The changes in the Primordial Ancient Mine and Purple Mountain were the result of his meticulous research.

Through these two modifications, the Immortal Emperor has mastered the method of transforming the power of faith into nourishment so that all people and things can grow.

In other words, the Immortal Emperor could have already used the power of faith to enhance his strength and forge the Immortal Heavenly Blade to further evolve it. However, for the sake of his own purity, he did not do so.

After all, this power of faith comes from all living beings. If one absorbs it directly, one will inevitably be affected by the impure thoughts within it, and will still be affected to some extent.

To circumvent this, the Immortal Emperor developed a completely new method of Nirvana to transform himself and live out his fourth life.

He buried himself within the divine embryo formed from the power of faith, becoming one with it perfectly, and preserving a trace of his true spirit.

Then, with the help of the Divine Dynasty, he mobilized most of the cultivators in the universe to pray for him, thereby gaining more faith power. He used the power of faith to create life and undergo an unprecedented nirvana, thus being reborn and living out his fourth life.

The Immortal Emperor's rebirth was essentially similar to the method Ye Fan used to revive Jiang Taixu and Ji Zi in later generations.

However, this method used the divine embryo formed from his faith power as nourishment, and after his Nirvana was completed, the divine embryo ceased to exist.

In other words, the Immortal Daoist in the original timeline died in the womb and never came into this world.

The current Immortal Emperor no longer needs this divine embryo as his helper. His path forward is very clear: to achieve immortality through repeated nirvanas and ascensions to immortality in the mortal world.

Even if he cannot become an immortal in the mortal world, he can enter a strange world to complete the second half of his cultivation and still become an immortal.

In the original timeline, his need for the Immortal Daoist was partly because he needed someone to look after the Heavenly Emperor's son and his other direct subordinates.

But now that he knows the strange world exists, he only needs to wait until his cultivation is strong enough to send all his direct descendants into the strange world.

In this timeline, the Immortal Empress is a Celestial Fire Saint Spirit created by Liang Yu. She has the ability to prove herself in the future, so the Immortal Emperor doesn't need to worry about her much.

As for his two sons, the Little Immortal Phoenix is ​​exceptionally talented and resilient, requiring little intervention from him. While the Heavenly Emperor's son's temperament is average, his profound foundation makes achieving enlightenment through unconventional means relatively easy. Sending him to a strange world when the time comes won't be difficult either.

Moreover, he now controls the Flying Immortal Waterfall, so even if he enters the strange world, he can still intervene in the human world to some extent.

Furthermore, since there are no longer any forbidden zones for life in the universe, the Undying Daoist no longer has any reason to exist. After the situation basically stabilized, the ball of light remained suspended in the void without any change, and the Dao aura of the Undying Emperor remained in a state of near dissipation.

This special state lasted for five thousand years.

The Immortal Emperor's Nirvana Method has a major problem: each time he undergoes Nirvana, he needs a significant amount of time. During this time, he enters a period of weakness, during which not only other Dao Prodigies but even powerful Imperial Weapons can affect him.

Therefore, the immortal emperor in the original timeline always lived in hiding. He often ambushed others when they were in their weakened old age, and his weakened periods could last for hundreds of thousands of years. If his whereabouts were exposed, he would become someone else's prey.

The current Immortal Emperor is essentially no longer capable of using the Imperial Path flesh-and-blood transformation, so he can only continuously explore other methods of Nirvana. However, periods of weakness are still unavoidable, and they are getting longer and longer.

Last time it was a thousand years, this time it's five thousand years, and it will only get longer and longer in the future.

After the period of weakness ended, the sphere of light, which had remained unchanged for five thousand years, suddenly began to tremble continuously, and a huge life force emanated from it.

The immortal emperor's aura surged into the sky, bursting out of the Big Dipper and almost engulfing the endless starry sky. This immense power alarmed all living beings in the universe.

An incredibly powerful aura of the Great Dao permeated the universe, captivating countless cultivators. However, many cultivators sensed something amiss: the aura of the Undying Emperor had detached from the Heavenly Heart Mark.

Could it be self-inflicted? But he clearly lived a life in reverse, and his aura has become even more immense. If it was self-inflicted, how could he have such a powerful aura?
Could it be that a Daoist who has reached a certain level of power can actively separate the Heavenly Heart Imprint from their own Dao Imprint, thereby avoiding their influence on future Daoists?
However, only a very small number of high-level cultivators could roughly understand why this phenomenon occurred, so it did not cause any sensation.

Moreover, even these cultivators have stopped thinking about these things, because the Undying Emperor is about to truly succeed.

With a resounding phoenix cry echoing throughout the universe, the sphere of light above the Big Dipper shattered, and a five-colored divine phoenix soared into the sky. Under the power of faith and the superb divine abilities of the Undying Emperor, the shadow of a phoenix appeared in most ancient stars and chaotic divine lands throughout the universe.

With a flap of its wings, it soared through the sky, showering countless showers of light, bringing blessings to cultivators in countless star fields and making it easier for them to enter the realm of enlightenment.

Above the Big Dipper, the divine phoenix's shadow, after bringing blessings to all races of the Big Dipper, transformed into a human figure. He looked to be only in his twenties, with a crystalline body and radiating boundless Daoist charm. He was none other than the Undying Emperor, who had returned to his youth and lived a second life.

The Undying Emperor felt himself transformed and become even more powerful, knowing that his achievements this time far surpassed those of his previous life. Although he had consumed most of the faith power he had accumulated over tens of thousands of years, the results were still more than enough to satisfy him.

With the resurrection of the Immortal Emperor and the blessing of the phantom of the Divine Phoenix, the human universe once again erupted in excitement.

Both the core members of the Undying Divine Dynasty and other cultivators throughout the universe were deeply shaken, and they shouted in unison, "May the Emperor live a long and prosperous life!"

(End of this chapter)