Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 522 Taiyin Body
Since the Supreme Celestial Venerable Wuji was born on Ziwei Star and preached the Dharma here many times, this place can be considered one of the core areas occupied by the human race, with profound cultural heritage.

However, over the years, those ancient races have continuously targeted and suppressed the human race, resulting in a large number of areas on Ziwei Star being occupied by the ancient races.

Of course, they dared not and could not launch a large-scale invasion. They could only slowly boil the frog in water, using pretexts such as trade and migration to occupy some remote areas in order to avoid being targeted by the great formation in the Ziwei Ancient Star.

Because they have many powerful forces backing them, even though the human race in the Ziwei Ancient Star is quite powerful, they can't directly break with them.

After all, within the Ziwei Ancient Star, they could stabilize the situation using the ancient formation left behind by the Wuji Celestial Venerable, but they had no way to deal with the area outside the ancient star. Those ancient races could directly seal off the Ziwei Star, severing their connection with the outside world.

If they completely break ties, they will be trapped on Ziwei Star. Although Ziwei Star has a profound foundation and can maintain normal cultivation even without any communication with the outside world, sticking to the old ways will inevitably lead to falling behind.

Moreover, just considering the ancient starry road alone, they had no choice but to compromise for the time being.

The human race is in a very bad situation now. In order to turn the tide in such a great era, a powerful person is needed to change everything. Ideally, a human emperor should be born.

Therefore, in order for the human prodigies of Ziwei Star to have better development and for powerful figures capable of turning the tide to emerge, the major forces of Ziwei Star can only turn a blind eye and maintain a balance with the ancient race.

Although there are still occasional frictions between these ancient races and the human race of Ziwei Star, the overall situation is relatively stable.

Over the years, the emergence of various special physiques on Ziwei Star has filled the major human forces on Ziwei Star with hope, perhaps Ziwei Star can produce another human Daoist.

Amidst this turbulent undercurrent, an extraordinary child was born into an ordinary family in a certain region of Ziwei Star.

He was born with exceptional intelligence and matured early, displaying wisdom far exceeding that of his peers even as a child. Even his appearance possessed a subtle, ethereal quality, making him seem otherworldly.

His parents are proud of him and hope that he will achieve great things in the future.

Although they were not cultivators, they had witnessed the existence of cultivators firsthand, and their supernatural powers of ascending to the heavens and descending to the earth, moving mountains and filling seas, and summoning wind and rain made them yearn for it.

Perhaps this extraordinary child has the potential to become a monk.

One day, a cultivator passed by and saw this child, who was not yet ten years old. He immediately felt that he had encountered a celestial being he had never seen before.

Even at a cursory glance, he could tell that the child had exceptional talent and a profound inner strength; he could even see an astonishing spiritual light in his eyes.

Such an aura is probably not something an ordinary child could possess; even many children with special constitutions don't exhibit this kind of grandeur. Perhaps this child also possesses an extremely powerful special constitution.

As an elder of the Lingguan Holy Land, Chen Chong is tasked with recruiting all the talented individuals within his sphere of influence and bringing them into the Holy Land for instruction and cultivation, in order to cultivate enough talent for the human race and for the Lingguan Holy Land itself.

The reason for doing this is twofold: firstly, the Ziwei Star human race is eager to take advantage of this great era to cultivate one or a group of powerful individuals who can change the overall situation.

Secondly, the ancient races also discovered that the human race was beginning to frequently produce various special physiques and seeds with extremely high cultivation talents. They did not want to be overthrown and purged by the human race, so they secretly sent their own cultivators or bribed human cultivators to hunt down these special physiques in order to stifle the rise of the human race.

To protect them, Chen Chong frequently traveled to various regions, bringing all these exceptionally talented children into the Lingguan Holy Land, both to teach them cultivation and to protect them from persecution.

Chen Chong transformed into a streak of rainbow light and landed in front of the child's house, explaining his origins and intentions to the parents. The Lingguan Sacred Ground is undoubtedly renowned throughout the ancient Ziwei Star. This is not only due to its profound foundation and formidable strength, but also because the first person of the mythical era, the only Dao-proving being on Ziwei Star to date, the Wuji Heavenly Venerable, emerged from the predecessor of this sacred ground—the Lingguan Cave Heaven.

Now that the human race is in decline, the cultivators of Ziwei Star naturally recall the glory of Ziwei Star and the human race when Wuji Datianzun was still alive. Therefore, Wuji Datianzun, along with the Lingguan Holy Land, has become the spiritual leader of the human race on Ziwei Star.

Although the child's parents were mortals, they had heard of the name of the Supreme Celestial Venerable Wuji. This mythical figure had long been the supreme deity worshipped by everyone on Ziwei Star. Upon hearing that Chen Chong came from the sacred Lingguan Land, the birthplace of the Supreme Celestial Venerable Wuji, they were naturally even more excited and placed more trust in him.

Therefore, they willingly agreed to send their child onto the path of spiritual practice.

But an unexpected situation occurred. After Chen Chong examined the child's physical condition in detail, the smile on his face froze for a moment, but then he quickly recovered.

Then he sent the child away and opened his mouth to speak to the expectant couple, but hesitated to speak.

Seeing this, the child's parents felt a sense of foreboding and hesitantly asked, "Master, is there something wrong with our child?"

Chen Chong sighed and said, "I don't know if I should tell you, but perhaps coming here was a mistake."

The child's father said, "Master, please tell us what's wrong with him. We'll be prepared."

Chen Chong said with a heavy heart, "This child is indeed exceptionally talented. He is the best seedling I have ever seen in my life. Not to mention this state or region, he is probably one of the rarest talents in the entire Ziwei Star."

"However, he is of the Yin constitution."

"The Yin Body? It sounds like something very powerful. Is there something wrong with it?"

Chen Chong sighed again: "Although the Taiyin Body is a rare and top-tier physique in the world, people with this physique have died young throughout history and never lived past the age of twenty."

The child's parents felt as if the sky had fallen and the earth had collapsed. They knelt down and cried, "Immortal Master, please save him, save our child!"

Chen Chong said, "I also want to save him. I would feel terrible if such a talented young man were to die like this. But to cure him, we need rare treasures like the legendary elixir of immortality or the Earthly Fate Fruit, which I am powerless to do."

Seeing the couple weeping uncontrollably, Chen Chong said gently, "Don't panic, both of you. Although all those with the Taiyin constitution in the past were like this, your child might be different."

"I promise you that I will do my best to help him find the Earth Fate Fruit to save him, but this thing is hard to find, not to mention me, even the sacred land of Lingguan has difficulty finding it, so don't have too high hopes, and prepare yourselves mentally as soon as possible."

The couple immediately kowtowed and said, "Thank you, Immortal Master, thank you, Immortal Master."

Chen Chong helped them up and said, "Whether or not to tell him about this is up to you."

The couple exchanged a glance and said, "Let's keep it a secret. We don't want him to live with this kind of pressure."

(End of this chapter)