Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 430 Proving the Dao
After further intensive training, both the White Tiger and the Black Tortoise successfully broke through to the Great Saint Realm. It was at this moment that the Ultimate Ancient Path finally opened.

This time, nearly three hundred competitors successfully made it onto the list, which can definitely be considered a major event.

Of course, this is also because many of these three hundred people are geniuses who came from previous lives.

They stepped onto the ultimate ancient path and began their final trial.

Among these people were those who had reverted to their ancestral form from the Undying Golden Body lineage, those with innate domineering bodies from the Azure Heaven Domineering Body lineage, and those with Kunlun Immortal Blood from the Kunlun Clan. Even more prodigies from the Underworld and Immortal Tombs participated. As for powerful individuals with bloodlines from other races, they were countless.

Of course, because the laws of nature in this era are more inclined to nurture powerful bloodlines, there are relatively fewer special physiques.

While special physical attributes don't necessarily equate to strength, their minimum potential is indeed quite high. Without the emergence of numerous special physical attributes, the human race has become relatively weaker than before.

Like the previous great eras, these prodigies maintained a stable and rapid growth state in a relatively tacit manner, taking turns to fight in various realms in order to obtain the strongest Dao Fruit.

During this process, the White Tiger and the Black Tortoise gradually took the lead. Apart from a few individuals, most of the other prodigies gradually fell behind, eventually dropping out and returning home in dejection.

They stayed in the Great Sage Realm for roughly three or four hundred years before finally reaching the pinnacle, where they could go no further.

This process also caused the vast majority of prodigies to fall behind. When the Black Tortoise and the White Tiger advanced to Quasi-Emperor status, there were fewer than five others who were with them.

They engaged in a final round of competition, and in the end only the White Tiger and the Black Tortoise emerged victorious. The others struggled to keep up at the Quasi-Emperor level three and could no longer keep pace with them.

At this point, only the two of them remain in this great era, continuing their rapid progress.

The cultivators in the universe knew that the next emperor would most likely emerge from one of them.

The White Tiger and the Black Tortoise parted ways and embarked on different paths of cultivation. They agreed to fight each other once every three heavens to test their progress.

When they reached the sixth level of the Quasi-Emperor realm, the Black Tortoise and the White Tiger were still unable to determine a winner, but the Black Tortoise had already gained the upper hand.

Over the years, his Jade Flower Divine Blood continued to boil, and the Jade Flower Immortal Scripture hidden in his bloodline also revived, which made his foundation become deeper and deeper.

Although the White Tiger possesses a terrifying physique that is almost like that of an immortal, and can hold its own even with the Indestructible Golden Body and the Heavenly Tyrant Body, it is still somewhat inferior to the Jade Flower Divine Blood of the Xuan Turtle, which is constantly evolving.

After all, when the Jade Flower Divine Blood evolves to its ultimate form, it can become the Jade Flower Divine Body, which is almost comparable to the Chaos Body, just like the Kunlun Immortal Body of the former Heroic God Xiao.

Unless the White Tiger awakens its true immortal White Tiger bloodline, it will be difficult to contend with it.

Driven by the looming signs of failure, the White Tiger visited the Kunlun Immortal Mountain, hoping to obtain a method for further advancement.

Thus, he became the son-in-law of the Kunlun Immortal Mountain lineage, marrying the Kunlun Immortal Blood who had fought him several times and ultimately lost.

As for Baihu, after visiting this place, he already knew what the Emperor Li meant by his words. Obviously, the thing that would be useful to him was the Baihu Immortality Elixir.

Although still a quasi-emperor, the White Tiger knew that the Elixir of Immortality contained secrets resembling immortal spirits. As a White Tiger who could almost perfectly mimic the real thing, if he could glean something from it, he might have a chance to evolve again, becoming comparable to a true White Tiger. However, this was one of the most important treasures of Kunlun Immortal Mountain, comparable to the supreme imperial weapon left behind by the Kunlun Immortal Emperor. Even among the Kunlun clan's inner circle, only a very few could access it; the White Tiger, an outsider, naturally had even less of a chance.

However, with the guidance of the current patriarch of the Kunlun clan, he came up with a solution: to become a core member of the Kunlun clan.

Thus, he married Lu Wu, with whom he had once shared some affection, successfully entered the core of the Kunlun clan, and gained the opportunity to comprehend and research the White Tiger Elixir of Immortality.

Moreover, even disregarding his own cultivation, this is a good thing for his descendants.

Lu Wu can also be considered a divine tiger, and it is a perfect match for the immortal spirit white tiger that is a replica of the Great Universe. Their descendants will surely be even more extraordinary and will directly become a new and powerful ancient race.

In fact, his descendants might even awaken the Kunlun Immortal Blood and become even more extraordinary.

Therefore, this is naturally a sure-fire way for the White Tiger to make a profit.

The Kunlun clan chief's actions were also an investment. He learned about the white tiger's background through the supreme imperial weapon left behind by Ying Shenxiao. If he could truly leave a bloodline in the Kunlun Immortal Mountain, it would be enough to make it another major clan in the Kunlun Immortal Mountain.

Baihu himself is an unparalleled genius with the potential to become an emperor. Even if he cannot attain enlightenment in this life, there is a high probability that he will in the future.

Even if he doesn't attain enlightenment, he can still achieve a completely different kind of enlightenment, just like Ying Shenxiao in his previous lives, which would be enough to make the Kunlun clan even stronger.

Moreover, Lu Wu, the Kunlun Immortal Blood of this generation, also cares deeply about Bai Hu and has been thinking about him for a long time. After their separation, she felt a sense of melancholy, as if she had seen the ocean and found it hard to be satisfied with a river. Now, she is naturally extremely satisfied.

Even the Gouchen Demon Lord, who was invited to the wedding, was grinning from ear to ear. Although the Power Emperor was no less powerful than the Kunlun Immortal Emperor, the Kunlun clan's foundation was indeed far superior to that of the Gouchen Demon Clan, and this marriage alliance would naturally bring him various benefits.

Therefore, this outcome can be described as a win-win situation, with everyone getting what they wanted.

While the White Tiger gained the support of the Kunlun clan and made its final preparations for war, the Black Tortoise put everything aside and traveled throughout the universe, comprehending the natural world, grasping the pulse of life and the Great Dao, washing away its impurities and returning to its original simplicity.

Hundreds of years have passed, and the 1,300-year-old Xuan Turtle and White Tiger have both reached the ninth level of Quasi-Emperor, and have begun their final battle.

In this battle, although the White Tiger evolved again and possessed even greater strength, comparable to all previous Dao Proving Masters of the same realm, he was still defeated by the Black Tortoise.

The White Tiger didn't lose because of his bloodline, supernatural powers, or cultivation level; he lost because of his realm, or rather, his state of mind.

Although the Black Tortoise, like the White Tiger, had just reached the ninth level of the Quasi-Emperor realm, his mental state had advanced further, allowing him to touch the barrier to enlightenment first. In other words, as long as he continued to accumulate experience, he would soon reach the state before his ultimate leap and trigger the great tribulation of enlightenment.

He had no more obstacles in his spiritual practice before he attained enlightenment.

In this state, the Black Tortoise defeated the White Tiger with relative ease. It was after this battle that the Black Tortoise officially became the victor of this era, with no one able to challenge him anymore.

Seven hundred years later, the two-thousand-year-old Xuan Turtle triggered the Great Tribulation of Enlightenment.

(End of this chapter)