Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 432 Senior Brother
The following day, the awakened Xuanwu Emperor openly and honestly visited the Kunlun Immortal Mountain.

Yesterday was a gathering of old friends; today is a meeting between Emperor Xuanwu and the Kunlun clan. One is more private, the other more formal.

The reason why Emperor Xuanwu came here, besides saying goodbye to Baihu, was actually to study the Kunlun Immortal Blood.

Of course, he wasn't trying to cultivate the Kunlun Immortal Scripture or to comprehend any secrets from it; he was simply using it as a reference to study his own Jade Flower Divine Blood.

Over the years of research, he had vaguely sensed that the bloodline within him seemed somewhat similar to the Kunlun Immortal Blood, both containing a special law different from the laws of heaven and earth.

The legend says that the Kunlun Immortal Blood was born due to the influence of the Kunlun Immortal Mountain, so perhaps his Jade Flower Divine Blood was also born in the same way.

In other words, the place where he was born was most likely also such a strange place.

His main purpose in this trip was to explore the connection between the Jade Flower Divine Blood and his birthplace by examining the connection between the Kunlun Immortal Blood and the Kunlun Immortal Mountain.

Even with his exceptional deductive abilities enhanced by his innate talent, Xuanwu Emperor still struggled to ascertain the direction of his birthplace.

Although Lingbao Tianzun did not shield his senses, the great array that Lingbao Tianzun had reshaped with the Dao of the Field would still greatly hinder his deductions.

This was actually Lingbao Tianzun's intention. Without cultivating the Jade Flower Immortal Scripture to a certain level, the Xuanwu Emperor would not be able to break through this barrier and sense the existence of the Jade Flower Divine Island.

Emperor Xuanwu actually hoped to study situations similar to his own to deepen his understanding.

At this time, Baihu was mainly responsible for handling all matters, big and small, on Kunlun Immortal Mountain. Although he was an outsider, under the Kunlun Immortal Array and the Supreme Divine Bell left by Ying Shenxiao, even though Baihu was an unorthodox Daoist, he could hardly overthrow the Immortal Mountain.

Furthermore, his offspring with Lu Wu of this generation also awakened remarkable Kunlun Immortal Blood, so the elders of the Kunlun clan still trusted him.

After Emperor Xuanwu expressed his desire to study the Kunlun Immortal Blood and displayed his own Jade Flower Divine Blood, the White Tiger, representing the Kunlun clan, agreed. The White Tiger's son then naturally became Emperor Xuanwu's research target.

Of course, Emperor Xuanwu would not conduct his research in vain. He would share some of his research results with the Kunlun clan, and he even used his own blood essence to baptize his son, Baihu, to make his foundation even stronger.

A century later, Emperor Xuanwu finally left Kunlun Immortal Mountain.

Over the years, although Emperor Xuanwu had gained a deeper understanding of the Jade Flower Immortal Scripture and the Jade Flower Divine Blood, he ultimately failed to enhance his ability to sense his homeland.

He also realized that only by diligently cultivating the Jade Flower Immortal Scripture could he find the right path, and that taking shortcuts would not lead to success.

Of course, during this process, Baihu also tried to cultivate the Kunlun Immortal Scripture. As a result, although he did not have the Kunlun Immortal Blood, the compatibility was still very high, even far surpassing those Kunlun clans who possessed the Kunlun Immortal Blood.

Therefore, he began to pursue two paths simultaneously, cultivating his own Dao and Dharma while also diligently studying the Kunlun Immortal Scripture, hoping to break through his limits and gain greater strength.

In this way, when he is reborn in the next life, he will have a deeper accumulation of knowledge, making his path to enlightenment smoother.

After leaving Kunlun Immortal Mountain, Emperor Xuanwu naturally returned to Gouchen Ancient Star. This place could be considered his second home, and the strong support of the Demon Lord was an important reason why he was able to gain a foothold in the human universe and make continuous progress.

Although the Demon Lord's vitality was declining and he was beginning to age, and even the position of Demon Lord had been inherited by the White Tiger, his cultivation level had actually improved.

This was, of course, because the White Tiger had specially brought many divine treasures to repay the debt of gratitude.

Emperor Xuanwu was even more decisive this time. He directly used his own blood essence to baptize the demon ancestors who had greatly helped him in the past, thus giving them a second spring. Afterwards, Emperor Xuanwu summoned the Gouchen demon clan and conducted a sermon that lasted for decades.

After finishing his sermon, he also handed an ancient scripture to the Demon Lord.

Of course, this is neither his ancient scripture nor the Li Huang's ancient scripture, but an ancient scripture specially created by the Xuanwu Emperor, suitable for most demon races to cultivate.

Both his scriptures and the scriptures of the Power Emperor are too difficult, and only a very few cultivators with exceptional talent can master them. Therefore, they are not suitable for use as the inherited cultivation methods of the demon race.

Therefore, he specially created a scripture with a low threshold, but which, when cultivated to its extreme, is no weaker than ordinary imperial scriptures, and had the Demon Lord and others pass it down among the demon race.

As for his own scriptures, they would naturally remain in the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons.

Since there were no forbidden secret techniques, only scriptures, and Emperor Xuanwu also consulted many other scriptures to modify and stitch them together, this ancient scripture did not require Emperor Xuanwu to spend too much time and energy.

After that, he entered the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons. The avatar of the Power Emperor sensed his presence and immediately appeared.

Emperor Xuanwu cupped his hands and said, "Senior Emperor Li, we meet again."

The avatar of the Power Emperor said, "So many years have passed, and you have successfully attained enlightenment, becoming my fellow Daoist. I wonder if you have found your birthplace yet?"

Emperor Xuanwu said, "I have read through the ancient books of the Kunlun clan and learned that there was a strange place that was once a forbidden zone for life, called Yuhua Divine Island."

"But at the end of the mythological era, Wuji Tianzun, together with Daode Tianzun, Lingbao Tianzun, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Mingzun, swept away all forbidden zones, and this place has been missing ever since."

"I must be from this place."

The avatar of the Power Emperor said, "Now that you know where you came from, half of your long-cherished wish has been fulfilled. Congratulations."

Xuanwu Emperor continued, “Senior Lihuang, the scriptures I cultivate come from the remaining Dao imprints on Yuhua Divine Island. These scriptures are almost identical to the ancient scriptures passed down by Lingbao Tianzun. Therefore, I think that Yuhua Divine Island must have fallen into the hands of Lingbao Tianzun back then.”

"Now that I think about it, those Dao traces, though ancient, don't seem to be as far back as the mythical era. So, I guess that at the end of the mythical era, Lingbao Tianzun did not ascend to heaven, but was still cultivating on Yuhua Divine Island."

"And Senior Li Huang, not only do you know this Jade Flower Divine Island very well, but it can also be seen from your essence blood that you have mastered the Jade Flower Immortal Scripture. The array patterns here also clearly contain the profound meaning of the word formation secret."

"So, Senior Li Huang, may I call you Senior Brother?"

The avatar of the Power Emperor laughed and said, "That's right, you guessed correctly. I am indeed a disciple of the Celestial Venerable Lingbao, and I have even mastered the Jade Flower Immortal Scripture, which allowed me to live a second life."

“I recognized your origins the day you arrived here. You possess the blood of the Jade Flower Divine, cultivate the Lingbao Dao Scripture, and the Dao diagram on your back contains the secrets of the Heavenly Evolution Array Diagram that my master laid out to guide my cultivation. This could only have been done intentionally by my master.”

"Since Master did not personally teach you, and did not want you to return to Jade Flower Divine Island so soon, I did not acknowledge you as my master."

"Now that you know all this, I should call you junior brother."

(End of this chapter)