Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 519 Meeting
Having accomplished all this, Emperor Ming began preparations to leave the mortal realm and ascend to immortality through the celestial gate. After all, he no longer had the time or energy to study how to undergo a transformation.

After further enhancing his condition through studying divine blood, Emperor Ming's accumulated strength was essentially exhausted. Although his lifespan and strength had significantly improved compared to his previous life, it was only a little over 20,000 years, up from 18,000 years. 21,000 years was his limit, still somewhat less than the 22,000 years of the first life of the Limitless Heavenly Venerable.

The reason he only lived for 18,000 years in his first life was because his supreme divine blood was copied from someone else's homework, not deduced by himself, nor was it something he was born with and had a very high compatibility with. Therefore, his condition was not perfect and there was still a slight difference compared to Liang Yu's peak in his first life.

Of course, after that minor transformation, Emperor Ming had perfectly mastered the supreme divine bloodline, which is why his lifespan in his second life increased significantly.

He was already twelve thousand years old, and his peak period would only last for one or two thousand years. Moreover, his research on other methods of reversing life was not deep enough, so he did not intend to continue living and chose to ascend.

However, before departing, Emperor Ming also needed to handle some of his affairs after his death.

During his years of cultivation, Emperor Ming collected all the shattered weapons of the progenitor of the gods and mixed them with other immortal metals to forge a divine spear. He then continuously nourished it with his own divine blood, eventually transforming it into an ultimate imperial weapon.

In addition, he had previously upgraded the True Profound Divine Dynasty's inherited divine sword by one level, refining it into an ultimate imperial weapon. In other words, he had refined three ultimate imperial weapons.

Although the difficulty was greatly reduced because his divine blood was from the same lineage as the owners of these two weapons, and they were not only divine blood but also related by blood, it still required a lot of time and effort.

This resulted in his natal divine weapon, the divine spear forged from Dao Tribulation Gold, not improving much and remaining in the same state as when it had just evolved into an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.

After all, his energy was limited. To leave behind an ultimate imperial weapon capable of suppressing the hidden strength of his people, he had no choice but to compromise on his own weapon for now.

After ascending to immortality, he will have plenty of time to cultivate, enough to upgrade his natal weapon. As for now, he should prioritize taking care of these clansmen, whom he may never see again.

Emperor Ming passed on the secret techniques of fixing the divine bloodline to his people. He also passed down the ancient scripture he had combined with the part about developing the potential of divine blood from the Ancient Scripture of Transformation. He also used the divine spear, which was reforged from the weapon of the first god ancestor of the god race, to suppress the divine bloodline's potential, thus making the god race a true royal family.

From then on, the threat posed by the Mystic Transformation Technique and the Ancient Scripture of Divine Transformation to the gods has been greatly reduced.

After all, most of them are not capable of raising their divine blood by two levels through the Mystic Transformation Technique and the Ancient Divine Transformation Scripture.

Of course, the Divine Stabilization Technique can only ensure that those gods with average talent can continue to inherit the divine bloodline, but it cannot change the inevitable trend of the most talented gods to cultivate the Ancient Scripture of Divine Transformation and the Mystic Technique of Divine Transformation in order to pursue the body of a God-Emperor or even the supreme divine bloodline.

Enabling their divine blood to continuously evolve and ultimately expand their advantages on the path of cultivation and enlightenment is something that the prodigies of the divine race will inevitably consider. They will most likely cultivate the Mystic Transformation Technique and the Ancient Scripture of Divine Transformation.

After all, Emperor Ming's successful attainment of enlightenment had already laid out an excellent path for them. Anyone who wanted to attain enlightenment would inevitably study and learn from Emperor Ming's cultivation journey, using the Ancient Scripture of Divine Transformation to evolve their own divine blood.

This is a crucial way for them to increase their competitiveness, and they simply cannot afford to give it up. In any case, judging from Emperor Ming's experience, as long as they can attain enlightenment, they can allow their children to inherit divine blood without the need for the Divine Stabilization Technique; it will only affect the next generation.

However, the fact that most of the gods can maintain a stable lineage is enough to ensure their long-term prosperity. After all, the majority lack the ability to explore the path to enlightenment, and this is the foundation of the gods' survival.

As long as they are there, the bloodline of the gods can continue to be passed down stably.

Furthermore, Emperor Ming instructed the gods never to antagonize the human race, and even if they did not assimilate into it, they should not be its enemies. After learning the secrets of the path to immortality, Emperor Ming was very worried that the Supreme Celestial Venerable Wuji was still in the mortal realm. Therefore, he hoped that the gods could restrain themselves and, ideally, establish closer ties with the human race, just like the major powers among them.

But he knew that this was highly unlikely, so he could only offer words of admonition.

In reality, this was merely a warning, or rather, a warning from Emperor Ming. Emperor Ming knew that the descendants of the gods would not forever abide by this ancestral precept.

But he is about to leave the human world, so these future matters are naturally not his concern. He has done what he should do, and these matters should be left to future generations to handle.

After the matter with the gods was settled, Emperor Ming also went to the True Mysterious Divine Dynasty.

After he further upgraded the divine sword inherited by the Divine Dynasty to an ultimate imperial weapon, the True Profound Divine Dynasty developed even more rapidly. Of course, this was also due to Liang Yu's covert efforts and the assistance of some major forces within the human race, with the Undying Golden Body lineage at its core.

Emperor Ming obtained an ancient scripture left behind by the Supreme Heavenly Venerable Wuji from the True Profound Divine Dynasty, as well as the Mystic Transformation Technique, the Ancient Scripture of Divine Transformation, and even his successful research on divine blood. Therefore, before leaving, he made a special trip to the True Profound Divine Dynasty to pass on his ancient scripture.

Of course, this excludes the part that lacks the mind-stabilizing technique and some forbidden methods. After all, even if he had to repay karmic debts, he still had to consider the issue of the divine race's inheritance.

Although his ancient scripture cannot compare to the Transformation Scripture of the Supreme Heavenly Venerable, it has its own unique features.

After completing all this, Emperor Ming prepared to leave the human world.

But for some reason, even though he didn't sense anything unusual, he stopped what he was doing and slowly turned his gaze into the distance.

It was a broken continent, exuding an aura of vicissitudes, seemingly from prehistoric times, and still retaining a Dao energy that was slightly different from that of the present.

This continent is similar to the one where Zhang Bairen proclaimed himself emperor. However, it has been completely shattered and become a no-man's-land.

On that shattered continent, a figure strolled about, seemingly searching for some secret.

Emperor Ming slowly flew to that continent and said to the man, "Are you the Supreme Heavenly Venerable?"

As the ancestor of the gods, whom the gods both love and hate, the face of the Supreme Heavenly Venerable Wuji is one of the foundations that the gods have inherited over the years. Therefore, Emperor Ming naturally recognized that this person had the same appearance as the Supreme Heavenly Venerable Wuji.

Moreover, he couldn't sense any aura emanating from the other person; they seemed like an ordinary mortal. But an ordinary person couldn't move freely under such harsh conditions. Therefore, the other person's realm was far too profound for him to comprehend.

Such a person can only be the Supreme Celestial Venerable.

(End of this chapter)