Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 384 Retraining the Nine Secrets
Shortly after Li Huang entered Yuhua Divine Island, Liang Yu awoke from his seclusion. In his sixth incarnation, he had already lived for ninety thousand years, but he still had plenty of energy and had not yet reached the point of exhaustion.

At this point, Liang Yu had finally reached a bottleneck. Both his personal cultivation and the combination of source techniques and array patterns had reached their current limits. However, he had completely completed the method for living out his seventh life.

Thus, Liang Yu, after a long hiatus, began to study its Nine Secrets once again.

The "Dou" secret, created by Liang Yu himself, is closely related to his Dao. Therefore, as his Daoist practice progressed, this secret reached a point where further progress was impossible, so there was no need to continue studying it.

As for the Secret of Character Formation, also known as the Way of Array Patterns, Liang Yu had already reached the pinnacle in his joint research with Lingbao Tianzun on how to combine it with Source Techniques, and there was not much room for further improvement.

As for the secrets of the character "前" (qian), the number secrets, and the character "者" (zhe), Liang Yu has continuously deduced and evolved them in his years of cultivation, bringing them to their ultimate level.

After all, Liang Yu's physical body and primordial spirit have always been one of his main focuses. The method of embodying the numerical secrets reached its peak after he created the secret technique that materialized the Dao Self and the Forgotten Self. Over the years, he has continuously explored and strengthened it, bringing it to a new level.

As for the protective method of the "Lin" secret, after Liang Yu fully mastered the laws of chaos, this secret also reached a point where it was truly impervious to all laws. What protective method in this human universe can compare to the chaos that dissolves all laws?
Moreover, thanks to Liang Yu's superb achievement of unifying all methods, the law of time is not a problem for him either, so the secret of the previous character has naturally reached its limit.

Therefore, for Liang Yu, the only areas where he still needs to improve are the secrets of the character "皆" and the character "兵".

Regarding the secret of the word "all," Liang Yu already had a direction. Ye Fan's "Furnace Nourishing Hundred Scriptures" was about refining all techniques, turning them into nourishment to forge his invincible body, as well as the simple yet extremely powerful Heavenly Emperor Fist.

Liang Yu's path to the myriad laws is relatively more complicated. He also refines all laws, but he finds the irrefutable truth in the changes of all laws, thereby gathering and integrating all laws, and finally achieving the unity of all laws.

Although the result of unifying all laws is chaos, what he ultimately pursues is to use the laws of chaos to cultivate his own supreme immortal techniques.

In other words, the ability to traverse all laws only allows him to generate all laws and exhaust all changes; but after all laws are unified, he can not only generate all laws, but also dissolve them. Of course, the most crucial point is that he can use the Chaos Dao Fruit of the Unified Dao to sublimate all laws in the mortal world and deduce immortal laws that do not belong to the human realm.

The "All" Secret Technique is essentially a secret technique that unleashes power far exceeding normal levels in a short period of time. Liang Yu had actually created more than one such technique long ago, but with his current cultivation level, these kinds of secret techniques, including the "All" Secret Technique, could no longer provide any amplification.

After all, this is merely a secret technique for enhancing the human realm, and naturally it cannot work on Liang Yu in his current state.

Therefore, the method is also very simple. He only needs to make certain improvements based on the "All" secret, and then nurture it with the Dao fruit of the unity of all laws, so that it can be gradually sublimated, thus turning decay into magic and making it a true immortal technique, thus creating an upgraded version of the "All" secret.

Although the previous seven secrets did not go through this process, Liang Yu's own cultivation had already crossed this boundary, so there was no need for further sublimation.

In fact, as long as Liang Yu truly creates the supreme immortal technique nurtured within his own chaotic laws, he can achieve the ultimate amplification and burst without needing the All-Word Secret, since this is the ultimate manifestation of his Dao Fruit.

However, this process requires Liang Yu to continue to improve, and it will only be truly achieved when he becomes a mortal immortal. Therefore, Liang Yu has no choice but to first sublimate the secret of the word "all".

After making his decision, Liang Yu began a new round of seclusion. Although the ancient tea tree could hardly play a supporting role for him now, something was better than nothing.

Of course, this is also because the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree's damage has caused its true, most fundamental secrets to remain hidden within its body, unable to be released. If the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree could be fully restored to its elixir-like state, then even if Liang Yu became a mortal immortal, he would likely receive a significant boost.

However, the Enlightened Ancient Tea Tree, which had already begun its journey towards human form, would not have that day. A thousand years passed, and Liang Yu finally further refined the "All" secret technique, evolving it into an even more advanced immortal art. This immortal art was enough to grant him a significant boost to his combat power.

Next is the "Soldier" secret among the Nine Secrets. To study the "Soldier" secret, one naturally needs to study the essence of the weapon.

With this in mind, Liang Yu summoned the Boundless Dao Stele, the Desolate Pagoda, the Immortal Bell, the Bronze Immortal Palace, the Qiankun Creation Pagoda, and the nine Immortal Golden Pagodas.

While refining these immortal artifacts with Dao Fire to accelerate their evolution as a reward, he also began to directly divide his divine sense to delve into the deepest part of these immortal artifacts, exploring their mysteries from the smallest details.

Of course, the Boundless Dao Stele, which contains the supreme mystery of the character "兵" (soldier), is the absolute core of this process.

Another thousand years passed before Liang Yu emerged from seclusion once more. The original "Soldier" secret technique could only influence and manipulate mortal artifacts; but now he had begun to grasp the fundamental secrets of immortal artifacts, further elevating the "Soldier" secret technique to the point that it could even influence immortal artifacts.

Through Liang Yu's simple experiment, he discovered that these four immortal artifacts were completely out of control under the effect of his upgraded version of the "Soldier" secret technique.

Although the sample size is too small to prove that the "Soldier" secret technique can now freely influence and manipulate immortal artifacts, it has indeed made significant progress compared to before.

Next, Liang Yu began to use the "Soldier" secret technique to control his own artifacts, namely these natal pagodas that he had personally crafted.

Under the influence of this secret technique, the power of all ten pagodas increased dramatically, unleashing a power far greater than their own autonomous revival and even greater than the power he generated when activating the pagodas without using the "Soldier" secret technique.

Throughout the entire process, the pagoda was perfectly suited to him, moving at his will and, in some ways, even more flexible and easier to use than his hands and feet.

Then, a flash of immortal light appeared within Liang Yu's body, and the ten pagodas directly merged into his body. Countless laws and Dao traces intertwined, and his already indestructible physical body shone with an immortal luster.

Under the influence of this "Soldier's Secret" technique, one's weapon can be perfectly integrated with one's physical body. In this state of unity between man and weapon, one's strength, especially defensive capabilities, will be greatly enhanced.

Liang Yu withdrew from this state and separated from the pagoda.

Then, he reached out and tore through the void, casually grabbing an ordinary stone from an ancient star, and used the "Soldier" technique to refine it. Instantly, this mortal object began to rapidly intertwine with laws and Dao traces, transforming into a weapon in a very short time. However, in just an instant, the stone shattered completely.

Another function of the "Soldier's Secret" is to quickly forge a temporary weapon in the shortest possible time. Depending on the material, the lifespan of such a weapon varies, but all of them can unleash considerable power instantly.

In addition, the "Soldier's Secret" greatly enhances normal weapon-refining methods. After mastering this technique, Liang Yu knew he could reforge the Qiankun Creation Tower and the nine Immortal Golden Pagodas, refining them and making them even more wondrous.

Furthermore, the other immortal artifacts may also gain the possibility of further evolution as a result.

(End of this chapter)