Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 504 Ascension
Those emperors who choose the path of ascension generally enter the immortal realm when they are at their peak, and the Emperor of Light is no exception.

Given his lifespan of barely 15,000 years, his second life will only last for a maximum of 10,000 years before he departs.

In his first incarnation, he intended to comprehend the power of faith like the Immortal Emperor, seeking a path to transformation. However, after much effort, the Emperor of Light failed.

He had only figured out some secret techniques for mobilizing and using the power of faith, but he still had no clue how to use them to reverse his life.

The Radiant Emperor has also briefly explored other common transformation paths, but none of them have shown any signs of success.

Therefore, the Emperor of Light had no choice but to relinquish everything in the human world and ascend to immortality. Thus, in his first incarnation, he devoted considerable time and energy to leaving behind various methods for future generations.

In this life, he should focus on his own cultivation. After all, the Great Bright Seal has already pointed out his path. Although he may not be able to achieve a substantial breakthrough, the direction is very clear.

Of course, the Bright Emperor did not simply shut himself away and work in isolation. He made several trips to Kunlun Mountain to discuss Dao with the White Tiger Emperor and shared some of his research on the power of faith with him.

For Earth Immortals, the power of faith is actually a direction for evolution, a fact that was discovered long ago by the Celestial Venerable of Longevity. The Black Tortoise Emperor and the White Tiger Emperor both gained their insights from him.

However, the White Tiger Emperor had only recently reached the fourth stage of Earth Immortal, so he had not yet had time to conduct a detailed and in-depth study of this path.

Even so, the White Tiger Emperor was inspired and began formally conducting experiments on the ancient star Kunlun.

Of course, only his direct descendants, the White Tiger tribe, worshipped and believed in him personally; the other tribes of the Kunlun clan directly regarded the Kunlun Immortal Mountain itself as their object of worship.

However, with the combined effect of this power of faith, the White Tiger Emperor clearly felt that his progress towards the fifth stage of Earth Immortal had accelerated.

After all, believing in him personally can protect his divine consciousness from being assimilated and eroded, while believing in Kunlun Immortal Mountain can promote his evolution, thereby also allowing him, an earth immortal who is integrated with Kunlun Immortal Mountain, to evolve as well.

If it weren't for the fact that he needed to achieve perfection when reuniting his true form as an Earth Immortal upon reaching the fifth stage, and incorporating the secrets of the White Tiger Elixir of Immortality into the process, the White Tiger Emperor estimated that he might only need tens of thousands of years to reach the fifth stage.

Even so, he could still use this to greatly accelerate his cultivation and allow Kunlun Immortal Mountain to begin to slowly expand.

Unlike the immortal tomb of the Eternal Celestial Venerable, the Netherworld of the Underworld Emperor, and the Jade Flower Divine Island of the Black Tortoise Emperor, which are all independent and wondrous places, the Kunlun Immortal Mountain of the White Tiger Emperor is closely connected to the ancient star Kunlun under the various means of the Kunlun Immortal Emperor Ying Shenxiao.

This was a method that Ying Shenxiao deliberately left behind to accelerate the restoration and growth of Kunlun Immortal Mountain.

This is why the Celestial Venerable of Longevity, the Underworld Emperor, and the Xuanwu Emperor allowed their blessed lands to evolve relatively independently. They relied on their own cultivation to strengthen the origin of the wondrous lands, thereby naturally expanding and becoming larger and more solid.

However, the White Tiger Emperor's expansion of his blessed land was unique. He continuously spread the origin, laws, and Dao traces of Kunlun Immortal Mountain along the earth's veins, slowly assimilating the ancient Kunlun star and gradually transforming it into a part of Kunlun Immortal Mountain.

Although this method is somewhat lazy, it can save a lot of time and is a clever trick.

After all, this new Kunlun Ancient Star is one of the top ancient stars in the universe, and after countless millennia of development, it has become incredibly wondrous. Moreover, because this ancient star is connected to the Kunlun Immortal Mountain, it carries the aura of that mountain, which is why it can be perfectly integrated.

If this were any other ancient star, the White Tiger Emperor would have suffered a loss by doing this; it would have been better to simply evolve and expand on its own. In the process, the White Tiger Emperor could also take the opportunity to continuously comprehend the mysteries of the White Tiger Elixir of Immortality, preparing itself for the future condensation of its Earth Immortal true form.

Once on the right track, the White Tiger Emperor said to the Bright Emperor, "Fellow Daoist Bright Emperor's guidance and help have saved me a lot of trouble. Thank you."

The Bright Emperor said, "Fellow Daoist Baihu, you have already accumulated knowledge of this method. Even without me, you would have just embarked on this path a little later. Moreover, I have not forgotten your kindness in guiding me through the various methods of becoming an immortal."

The two exchanged a smile and then stopped arguing.

After that, the Bright Emperor, out of respect for the White Tiger Emperor, also paid a visit to the Black Tortoise Emperor, whose cultivation was even more profound.

Although Emperor Xuanwu was ahead of Emperor Baihu in terms of personal cultivation and progress in the Earth Immortal Technique, he could hardly catch up in terms of the power of faith.

After all, the Kunlun clan in Kunlun Immortal Mountain had long since become a large clan, while life on Yuhua Divine Island was obviously not as orderly or civilized.

Therefore, if Emperor Xuanwu wants to study how to accelerate his own evolution with the power of faith, he will need to spend a lot of extra time establishing a stable order on Jade Flower Divine Island and creating the Jade Flower Divine Clan to correspond with the Kunlun Clan.

Therefore, the Bright Emperor, who had established the Alliance of Ten Thousand Races, also provided the Black Tortoise Emperor with a lot of experience and advice, helping him to establish order on Jade Flower Divine Island.

In gratitude to the Emperor of Light, the Emperor of Black Tortoise shared his Dao and Dharma with him, ultimately greatly enhancing the Emperor of Light's ability to deduce.

Nine thousand years have passed since these two rounds of in-depth exchanges and cooperation, as well as discussions on the Dao and its principles. Therefore, the Bright Emperor no longer has enough time to visit the Underworld Emperor and the Eternal Heavenly Venerable in the Underworld and the Immortal Tomb.

Although he could live another life through the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill, and the Xuanwu Emperor possessed the pill formula, the Bright Emperor thought it over again and again and did not choose to use it to prolong his life.

In his years of cultivation, the Emperor of Light has come to realize that his talent is limited and that his research into the method of reversing life is unlikely to succeed.

Even if he were to live another life, the Emperor of Light would have no confidence in achieving a transformative rebirth. After all, he hadn't even achieved sufficient results in a practically feasible direction.

As for his personal cultivation, although the Great Bright Seal pointed out the way forward, it was very difficult for him to continue to make progress because there were no immortal laws in the human universe.

Although the world he ascended to was not the Immortal Realm, it was still better than the mortal universe, and should be able to support his continued progress.

Therefore, although it was somewhat regrettable, the Emperor of Light ended his arduous training and returned to the Light Clan.

Although he had done everything he could to prepare for his descendants, the Gods of Light, to the utmost, ensuring that the Gods of Light would remain standing after his departure, the Emperor of Light was still somewhat reluctant and upgraded the various methods he had left behind.

In the end, the Emperor of Light left the mortal realm with only the Divine Refining Pot, forged from luminous white gold, and ascended to a strange world.

(End of this chapter)