Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 421 The New Era Begins

After sending the Seven Divine Generals, Phoenix Maiden, Pegasus, and Ning Fei into the Strange World, the Undying Emperor returned to the Primordial Ancient Mine.

Now, of all the people he cares about, besides his two sons, it's only himself. After all, his master, the Supreme Heavenly Venerable, certainly doesn't need his concern, and his junior brother, Taichu, also has the Supreme Heavenly Venerable's attention.

If someone wants to enter a strange world, they can do it themselves without using an ascension array. Moreover, given the Heavenly Emperor's son's current strength, he probably doesn't even need to prove his Dao to enter the strange world through an ascension array.

Therefore, he did not send the emperor's son into the group as well.

The Heavenly Emperor's son has a high margin for error. After mastering the power of Nirvana, he can completely heal himself through Nirvana even if he suffers Dao injuries from forcibly undergoing tribulation.

Therefore, the Immortal Emperor naturally hoped that he would continue to attempt to prove himself and forge his own path. In this way, he himself could enter the strange world and gain a broader future.

After gathering his thoughts, the Immortal Emperor continued his cultivation. He had already lived for 50,000 years in this life, which was equivalent to his lifespan in his previous life, yet he was still full of vitality.

Although he has begun to decline, he has only recently passed his peak.

Even though the Immortal Emperor sacrificed his life force by several thousand years to allow the Fire Emperor to complete his Nirvana, he still had more than ten thousand years left to live.

According to the Immortal Emperor's own calculations, he could live for another 20,000 years in this fifth incarnation. In other words, his theoretical lifespan in this incarnation would exceed 70,000 years.

Although he still had a long lifespan left, the Immortal Emperor began to cultivate with every spare moment. After all, his Nirvana method in this life was not yet fully perfected and required further in-depth research.

Although the Immortal Emperor is now capable of Nirvana, in order to transform all the mysteries of the Divine Phoenix Elixir of Immortality into nourishment for himself, he still decides to continue his in-depth research and truly transform himself into a perfect immortal phoenix.

After Ning Fei ascended to heaven, the human universe once again fell into silence.

Time flows ceaselessly, never stopping. Ten thousand years have passed in a flash, and a new great era has begun.

As before, the Heavenly Emperor's son was born again, heading to the cosmos to attempt to prove his Dao. However, this time he did not alarm the Undying Divine Dynasty.

Of course, when the tribulation lightning, far surpassing that of ordinary Dao-proving cultivators, resounded throughout the universe once again, many cultivators still sensed the aura of the Heavenly Emperor's son.

Having mastered the power of the Phoenix Rebirth and deeply developed his own bloodline while repairing all his Dao injuries, the Heavenly Emperor's son's strength advanced further, truly reaching the point of achieving a completely unconventional path to enlightenment.

Moreover, with the support of the powerful bloodline of the Immortal Phoenix True Body, comparable to the Chaos Body, the Heavenly Emperor's son was stronger than ever before. Although he was still not as powerful as the Undying Heavenly Emperor of yesteryear, he was still extraordinary.

Even against an ordinary Daoist, he might not necessarily lose; at the very least, he could put up a fight.

It was precisely for this reason that the tribulation he triggered became even more terrifying, almost capable of destroying the heavens and the earth.

The Heavenly Emperor's son easily passed most of the tribulation. Countless five-colored divine lights flashed, as if an unparalleled immortal embryo was about to be born from his body, soaring upwards and ascending to immortality.

But just as he was about to make his final leap and achieve true perfection, the figure of the Undying Emperor reappeared in the sea of ​​lightning.

The Heavenly Emperor's son roared, his voice shaking countless stars and causing the endless starry sky to ripple. The remaining sea of ​​lightning was swept away in one fell swoop, leaving only the figure that resembled him but was different from him completely unharmed.

This Great Dao mark from the Undying Emperor is the final tribulation for the Heavenly Emperor's son. Only by breaking through this mark can he attain enlightenment. The Heavenly Emperor's son took a deep breath, suppressing the complex emotions surging within him, and charged towards the mark.

Even though the Emperor's son has surpassed his former self, this Emperor's Mark still grows stronger when facing stronger opponents, and the Emperor's son still cannot defeat it despite his best efforts.

Was his father really that powerful in his unorthodox path to enlightenment? The Emperor had no answer.

But considering that several of his father's former opponents had all subsequently attained enlightenment, he dismissed his doubts. After all, the prestige of this achievement was indeed extremely high.

Through repeated attempts, the prince inevitably felt a strong sense of frustration. A seemingly insurmountable chasm separated him from his father.

Perhaps his wise and mighty father really could have defeated those who had attained the Dao before he even did, but since no one had attained the Dao before him, he hadn't shown this ability.

The final result of the Heavenly Emperor's son's attainment of the Dao was the same as before. He was torn into eight pieces by the Immortal Emperor's mark, almost dying on the spot. Even his origin was left with a Dao injury shaped like a celestial phoenix, causing his aura to continuously weaken and almost disappear.

The Undying Emperor, who had specifically taken time to pay attention to this place, shook his head and stopped paying attention. Although the Emperor's son's injuries were more severe this time, he would still be kept alive by the powerful bloodline of the Phoenix lineage and would completely heal his injuries through Nirvana.

For other cultivators, failing to attain enlightenment is a major event. Gai Jiuyou, who was on par with Chuan Ying and Ning Fei, suffered severe injuries because he forcibly attempted to break through the barrier while bearing the Great Dao Mark of the Azure Emperor.

Even more so, in later generations, many who fail to attain enlightenment will have their home planets turned into dead stars along with them.

However, the Heavenly Emperor's son was well aware of the dangers of the tribulation to attain enlightenment. Therefore, regardless of whether he failed or not, he would undergo the tribulation in the starry sky to avoid affecting life-bearing stars such as the Big Dipper.

The injuries he sustained during his forced path to enlightenment were rendered fatal by his phoenix bloodline power, and he could heal himself without the need for elixirs of immortality or Nine-Turn Immortal Pills.

With the help of the Immortal Seal, the Heavenly Emperor's son was brought back to Purple Mountain and began his secluded cultivation and healing.

Of course, there was also the question of how to break free from this indelible mark of the Great Dao that had seeped into his very bones.

Despite the immense and terrifying commotion caused by the Heavenly Emperor's son's tribulation, cultivators in the human universe still learned from the calm of the Heavenly Heart Imprint and the myriad paths of the universe that the Heavenly Emperor's son had failed to attain enlightenment this time.

Could it be that the rumor that a single lineage cannot produce two emperors is actually true? The fact that even the emperor's son, who inherited the near-immortal bloodline of the immortal emperor, could not break through this limitation seems to further prove this point.

However, regardless of the circumstances, the Heavenly Emperor's son has failed to attain enlightenment, and no self-proclaimed ancient figure has emerged since. This means that the prodigies of the new era are finally about to begin a new round of battles to determine the strongest of their time.

Thus, countless prodigies who had secluded themselves for hundreds of thousands of years emerged one after another. Of course, only a portion of these prodigies awakened, not all of them. After all, some had chosen to remain sealed away forever, their slumber too deep for them to awaken anytime soon.

Meanwhile, the geniuses of this era seemed to have been brewing for a long time, and they began to bloom in all their glory. Various powerful bloodlines and physiques emerged, and the seeds of various major forces appeared one after another. Even the Immortal Mausoleum and the Underworld sent out several geniuses they had cultivated.

It is possible. Although this era is not as grand as when Wuji Tianzun, Yuanshi Tianzun, and the Immortal Emperor were born and waged war, it is still greater than most of the ancient celestial beings of the past.

The Emperor's son's failure to attain enlightenment seemed to be the opening of a new era.

(End of this chapter)