Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 380 The Fall of the Moral Doppelganger

Under the influence of these emperors who ascended to heaven and left the mortal realm after living for only ten thousand years, the human universe gradually began to adapt to this fast-paced change.

Aside from Liang Yu, Yuanshi Tianzun, and the Immortal Emperor—three long-lived Dao-proving beings who appeared one after another—it's common for Dao-proving beings to exist for 20,000 to 30,000 years. Furthermore, their Dao aura dissipates over 10,000 years. Therefore, ideally, a Dao-proving being appears only once every 30,000 to 40,000 years in the human universe.

However, under the influence of these emperors who could no longer use the elixir of immortality, the process was shortened considerably.

In the future, this process may even be shortened. With them as role models, future enlightened beings will likely not live to old age to ascend, but will leave and enter the strange world while they are still in good condition.

However, this is also good, since many emperors who would have attained enlightenment in the early ancient era in the original timeline have been replaced for various reasons. With a faster pace, they may still have a chance to become emperors in later generations.

As time passed, these Celestial Venerables who embarked on the path of immortality in the mortal world also reached the later stages of their current lives, and they began to prepare for their transformations in the next life.

During the years when the imprint of the Three Lives Emperor's Great Dao gradually faded, the Moral Celestial Venerable entered his later years. He was merely an avatar, not his true self.

The Great Luo Immortal Mountain is shrouded in celestial energy. Over the years, the small world inside the Xuandu Cave has become even more wondrous, as if it were a place where the Great Dao converges.

If this continues, this place may be able to, to some extent, replace the Heavenly Heart Mark in helping people comprehend the myriad paths and perfect themselves.

Inside the Xuandu Cave, the two Moral Celestial Venerables sat facing each other. Although they had both reached old age, their physical bodies were exhausted, their vital energy depleted, and they could no longer conceal the aura of death and decay, having truly reached the end.

Although his physical form was also in his twilight years, he still possessed boundless energy and vitality. Of course, upon closer inspection, one could still sense subtle traces of decline within his Daoist aura.

This divine embryo, born from the Bodhi Immortal Tree, possesses extraordinary potential, enough to support the Moral Celestial Venerable in living a second life.

Therefore, although he was only an avatar, he still possessed an essence nearly identical to that of the Six Incarnations of the Celestial Venerable Morality. This is why he had a lifespan of approximately 84,000 years. This is undoubtedly a terrifying thing.

Of course, what's even more terrifying is that the lifespan of the Supreme Lord of Morality is even longer than that of this avatar. According to the Supreme Lord of Morality's estimation, his true form should be able to live for around 90,000 years.

Over these 84,000 years, the avatar of the Moral Celestial Venerable continuously cultivated, growing stronger and stronger, constantly deducing the Chaotic Ancient Law, and cultivating it to its ultimate limit. He reached the pinnacle of almost every level, and researched more than one extreme realm.

The Celestial Venerable of Morality was confident that even if he were to return to the chaotic ancient era, his achievements would be absolutely unparalleled.

During this process, the cultivation level of his clone also continuously increased, constantly breaking through its limits. After all, his own superior realm was shared with this clone. Although the cultivation systems were different, the laws of heaven and earth were similar.

Therefore, although the clone's strength is somewhat inferior to that of his main body, the difference is not too great.

For the Celestial Venerable of Morality himself, this avatar was absolutely worthwhile. Although his sixth incarnation did not fully accomplish the task of forming this avatar, because a primordial spirit that formed this avatar existed within the fragments of the Great Dao he evolved, his original body was incomplete.

But precisely because of this, this clone allows him to integrate the two cultivation methods and fuse them into one, thus reaching a higher level.

The consciousness of the Moral Celestial Venerable's avatar was synchronized with his main body, so he knew that the Moral Celestial Venerable did not yet want to directly merge with this Dao Fruit and return him to his main body. Therefore, the Moral Celestial Venerable's avatar began to completely extract his own essence, gradually condensing it into a physical Dao Fruit. Everything in this avatar, from its origin to its laws to its primordial spirit, converged into one, and the avatar itself became an empty shell.

This technique was comprehended by Liang Yu and Yuanshi Tianzun from the Hedao Flower. Later, it was mastered by Daode Tianzun, who also made certain modifications to it, thus separating the Dao Fruit cultivated by this clone and forming a human-shaped physical Dao Fruit.

Although the Celestial Venerable of Morality had not personally studied the Harmony Flower, since Liang Yu and the Primordial Celestial Venerable had both completed this research, the Celestial Venerable of Morality successfully mastered this method by combining the two.

As for separating the Bodhi Divine Embryo's origin from within his body and integrating it into the Dao Fruit, it was naturally because the Moral Celestial Venerable was also a senior in the path of physical evolution. Although he did not continue down that path, his attainments were still quite profound.

Seeing that the Dao fruit had completely stabilized, the Celestial Venerable of Morality placed it into the Bodhi Tree for temporary preservation and further nurtured it with the help of the Bodhi Tree.

After all, this divine clone was born from the Bodhi tree.

Of course, this process will also allow the Bodhi Ancient Tree to further benefit, and even share some of the Great Dao insights of the Celestial Venerable.

Whether it is to take human form now or to cultivate after taking human form in the future, these accumulations will be of great benefit to the Bodhi tree.

The Celestial Venerable of Morality does not merge with the Dao Fruit now so that it can return to his original form when he reaches old age in this life, thus achieving complete fusion and living out his seventh life.

Unlike the Primordial Celestial Venerable, who needed to explore the method of merging Dao Fruits and think of the laws of chaos, the Moral Celestial Venerable's avatar was initially formed from a fragment of the Great Dao containing an indestructible true spirit, which he had specially condensed.

Therefore, it would be very easy for the Celestial Venerable to retrieve and merge it. Moreover, since his main body is much stronger than his clone, any potential conflicts would be within the Celestial Venerable's control and would not cause any problems.

After the main body of the Celestial Venerable of Morality condensed the essence of the clone into a physical Dao Fruit and extracted it, the clone collapsed and became a corpse.

After all, with these forces supporting him before, he could still maintain some vitality. Now that this clone has even lost its primordial spirit, it has naturally ended its life completely.

However, thanks to its extraordinary nature and superb cultivation, even though the corpse had become a complete shell, it still retained a great deal of divine essence.

It even contains auras similar to those of the Bodhi Tree, which can help one achieve enlightenment; moreover, the sturdiness of this body is unimaginable, probably even an ultimate imperial weapon cannot shake it. In other words, if this body were used to refine a weapon, the effect would be better than immortal gold.

This body was transformed into a rare treasure in the human universe.

Looking at this body, the Celestial Venerable of Morality was unsure what to do. After all, this was essentially another version of himself, and he didn't need a new weapon.

However, at this moment, the Celestial Venerable suddenly recalled his experience of living out his fifth incarnation and was immediately inspired.

If this body were to become sentient, what would it look like?
The moment the thought of the Moral Celestial Venerable arose, everything became clear.

(End of this chapter)