Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 518 Mystic Arts
Although Emperor Ming lived longer than many enlightened beings, his time was also running out.

In his first life of cultivation, Emperor Ming made many progress and furthered his cultivation, but he failed to achieve his two goals: to improve the mystical arts and to explore the method of reversing life.

He needs to enter the immortal sect and ascend to immortality before his peak ends, so this second life only allows him about ten thousand years to continue cultivating.

Therefore, Emperor Ming had no choice but to abandon his research on other methods of reversing life and instead focus all his energy on studying divine blood and improving mystical arts.

This time, however, the Ming Emperor left the human race and went to the True Profound Divine Dynasty, which had been rebuilt over the years.

Although the True Profound Divine Dynasty has always been a major power among humans, its roots ultimately lie in the divine race. Therefore, while the True Profound Divine Dynasty coexists peacefully with other human powers, its connections are not very deep, and a subtle sense of alienation always exists and has not been completely eliminated.

This is one of the reasons why it was chosen as a target back then.

However, after experiencing this near-annihilation and subsequent reconstruction, the True Profound Divine Dynasty completely abandoned its previous slight estrangement and, together with the Undying Golden Body lineage, became one of the most steadfast guardians of the human race.

After all, although the lineage that directly rescued them this time was the Undying Golden Body lineage, it was not only the Undying Golden Body lineage that withstood the pressure to protect them during negotiations with the gods and other races, and even spent a lot of manpower and resources to help them make a comeback.

This harmonious state of mutual help and support truly allowed the True Mystic Dynasty to be reborn. This was not only in form, but also in ideology.

Upon returning to the True Mysterious Ancient Star, Emperor Ming sensed a vibrant vitality. This thriving divine dynasty bore no resemblance to one that had once suffered a catastrophic catastrophe.

However, considering that nearly 20,000 years have passed since that great calamity, this change is not surprising.

After all, over such a long period of time, these things really aren't considered major issues.

Moreover, the reconstruction of the True Profound Divine Dynasty is backed by the Undying Golden Body lineage and other human forces, so it will naturally be much smoother.

Moreover, the establishment of the True Profound Divine Dynasty went very smoothly. Whether it was the sudden, long-awaited evolution of the True Profound Ancient Star or the frequent discovery of treasures while developing uninhabited areas, these were all common occurrences, almost as if divine intervention had helped them. This made them even more convinced that their choice was correct.

Of course, these things were secretly orchestrated by Liang Yu. After this round of calamities, the True Profound Divine Dynasty was truly reborn from the ashes and became a staunch supporter of the human race, which is why Liang Yu deliberately supported them once again.

Therefore, over the course of more than ten thousand years, the True Profound Divine Dynasty has once again become a major power.

However, Emperor Ming did not come here as a guest; he came to study the Ancient Scripture of Transformation and the Mystic Arts of Transformation.

The divine race has completely prohibited the practice of the Mystic Transformation Technique and the Ancient Scripture of Transformation. Therefore, if Emperor Ming wants to further comprehend these techniques and scriptures, he needs cultivators who have actually practiced them as samples and research materials.

Although the relationship between the gods and humans was not good, Emperor Ming was relatively well-regarded among humans. After all, he was the one who curbed the gods' malice towards humans and ensured peace in the human universe.

Therefore, when Emperor Ming came, the Zhenxuan Divine Dynasty naturally cooperated fully.

Emperor Ming reached a deal with the True Profound Divine Dynasty. He would further upgrade the True Profound Divine Dynasty's inherited divine sword to the ultimate imperial weapon, and leave behind his insights into the Mystic Transformation Technique and the Ancient Scripture of Divine Transformation in exchange for the Emperor's research into the evolutionary process of the True Profound Divine Dynasty's cultivators in practicing these secret techniques and ancient scriptures.

With Emperor Ming's strength, he could have done this directly, but considering the connection between the True Profound Divine Dynasty and himself, as well as the process of the divine sword guiding him to perfect his Dao Fruit, Emperor Ming still adopted this win-win approach to help the True Profound Divine Dynasty accumulate strength.

Although on the surface the True Profound Dynasty seems to have recovered its vitality, the foundation built up over hundreds of thousands of years cannot be replenished overnight. Therefore, the Emperor's suggestion was indeed a great help to them.

Thus, Emperor Ming began the second phase of his research. Time flew by, and another ten thousand years passed in a flash.

During this period of research, Emperor Ming made a breakthrough in his study of divine blood, and thus he directly mobilized his own divine blood essence to undergo a transformation.

Of course, this is just a small transformation, a way to make oneself more perfect and fine-tune one's own state, but it cannot achieve a reverse life.

After completing this minor transformation, Emperor Ming's divine bloodline was truly perfected. He felt his condition had improved significantly, and it seemed even his lifespan had increased.

Even so, ten thousand years have already passed in this life, and he doesn't have much time left to stay.

Two thousand years after returning to the God Clan, Emperor Ming finally created the Mind-Stabilizing Technique, which could improve the mystical arts, based on his own research.

After using the Transformation Mystic Technique, the divine blood within a cultivator's body will boil, making the divinity inherent in their origin more active than ever before, losing its previous stability. Therefore, once they master this technique, they will be unable to pass on their divine blood to their offspring.

Emperor Ming's goal was essentially to overcome this point, allowing cultivators to stabilize their divinity after practicing the mystical arts, so as not to affect the survival and inheritance of the divine race.

However, it is easy to start a fire but difficult to extinguish it. To restore the divinity to a stable state, Emperor Ming needs to study the essence of divine blood based on the ancient scripture of divine transformation and develop a sufficiently effective method.

Therefore, Emperor Ming spent such a long time, even improving his cultivation level, and completed a small transformation without reversing his life force.

The so-called "Spirit Stabilization Technique" is actually a secret technique used after the "Transformation Mystic Technique" to stabilize the divine blood again, allowing it to be passed on to future generations.

Using the Mystic Transformation Technique in combination with the Mystic Fixation Technique can only raise one's own divine blood level by one grade at most, and then it cannot be used any further.

However, this secret technique can only be used when one's divinity has not gone too far. Once one uses the Transformation Mystic Technique to enhance one's divine blood beyond a certain stage, this secret technique will no longer be effective.

For example, if a divine body is upgraded to a divine king body or a divine blood supreme, then if the bloodline is to be passed down stably, then the divine blood cannot be further evolved into a divine emperor body; if an ordinary member of the divine race with a certain strength of divine blood is upgraded to a level equivalent to a divine body, then if the descendants are to have divine blood, then the divine bloodline cannot be further cultivated into the Transformation Mystic Art.

Although the effect is reduced, it can maintain the stability of divinity, thus not affecting the bloodline inheritance.

In other words, this is the possibility for all members of the divine race to raise their own divine blood by one level without affecting their bloodline inheritance.

The same principle applies to the Ancient Scripture of Divine Transformation. If one only uses this to elevate the divine blood to a certain stage, there is still hope to stabilize the divinity and maintain the inheritance through this secret technique.

Of course, this only applies to people who are born with divine blood, and does not include people who condense divine blood from scratch.

This improved secret technique has another problem: it cannot allow the divine bloodlines of the Divine Emperor Body and the Supreme Divine Blood, which are acquired through later evolution, to be passed down through bloodlines.

In other words, even if a God-King Body evolves its divine blood into a God-Emperor Body, its descendants will at most be limited to the level of God-King Body and God-Blood Supreme, and it is still impossible for any innate God-Emperor Body or Supreme God-Blood to exist.

Regardless, the power of the gods will increase and they will become stronger because of this mysterious magic.

Emperor Ming, who created this secret technique, naturally became the third ancestor of gods, after the progenitor of the gods in the mythological era and the Supreme Heavenly Venerable Wuji.

(End of this chapter)