Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 533 Interception
On his way back to his hometown, Changsheng did not choose to go directly back. Instead, he began to take a detour, proceeding along a route that seemed to have no discernible pattern at first glance, while checking whether anyone was following him and getting closer to his hometown.

Changsheng had actually foreseen the problems within the Lingguan Holy Land. During his journey to become a key candidate for Holy Son and gaining the support of others, he learned firsthand about the current chaos within the Lingguan Holy Land from their perspectives.

Of course, he also knew that the Holy Lord of Lingguan was using various means to suppress the major forces within the Holy Land and to highly concentrate power.

Chen Chong is a staunch follower of the Holy Master of Lingguan, and Changsheng, as his disciple, is naturally regarded as the future core of the Holy Master of Lingguan's lineage.

Therefore, Changsheng had long anticipated that someone might try to intercept and kill him on his journey.

Those who are hunting him down may be vying for power and ensuring that their descendants have the upper hand, so that the lineage of the Holy Master of Lingguan will not dominate in the future.
It's also possible that he offended someone when he used ruthless methods to suppress other competitors of the Lingguan Holy Land, so those people would hunt him down in retaliation.

These two types of people might not only send their own people to attack, but they might also collude with other forces that want to shake the status of the Lingguan Holy Land. Even worse, they might use the power of the ancient clans to eliminate him as a dissident.

There may not be many people who completely side with the ancient clans as inside agents to help them stifle human geniuses, but there are probably more than just one or two people who have established a business relationship with the ancient clans.

Therefore, the path to immortality is still fraught with danger.

However, the Holy Master of Lingguan was always meticulous, and Changsheng knew that he would use this matter to target the cultivators who were affected by him, just as he had done in the past. Therefore, there might be someone watching over him behind the scenes.

However, considering safety issues, Changsheng did not place all his hopes on whether the Holy Master of Lingguan would send someone to protect him. Instead, he prepared some measures to deal with the danger.

Throughout the journey, Changsheng remained vigilant. Even though he was far from the sacred Lingguan site and had not been attacked, he did not let his guard down in the slightest.

Finally, just as he was far from the sacred Lingguan site, a sword light silently pierced out from behind him. A flash of cold light appeared, and as it approached his body, it burst into a dazzling light.

Without turning his head, Changsheng used the Douzi Secret Technique to transform into the Baoshan Seal and smashed it down, vaguely revealing a majestic and massive mountain peak, which resembled the mountain peak beside Yinfeng Valley, both containing this bone-chilling cold.

In an instant, divine light flashed, followed by a deafening roar. The sword light was crushed by the divine peak, and the assassin was also shattered, turning into a cloud of blood mist.

But when the assassin died, Changsheng didn't sense much of his divine sense. Changsheng frowned. Could it be a clone?
But in that instant of distraction, two more beams of cold light appeared, attacking his heart and apex respectively.

Chang Sheng remained fearless, raising his hand to unleash the Heaven-Turning Seal and Earth-Covering Seal using the Dou Zi Secret Technique. With one hand supporting the sky and the other gripping the earth, he seemed to be turning the world upside down, releasing terrifying power. The two assassins were crushed before they could even fully emerge from the void.

Changsheng said, "Let's bring them all together, no matter how many there are."

On this day, Changsheng killed dozens of assassins who had tried to kill him and left safely. But Changsheng did not feel relaxed at all.

The assassins he encountered were merely cultivators at the first or second level of the Immortal Ascension Realm, and a significant portion of them were simply puppets, not real people at all.

Therefore, this was clearly just the beginning. Thus, Changsheng secretly changed course, refraining from bringing the war to his homeland.

Next, Changsheng began to encounter various attacks, and his opponents became increasingly powerful. Even though Changsheng had a profound foundation and had long possessed the combat power of the Eight Forbidden Realms, his cultivation level was still not high enough. Therefore, he gradually shifted from forceful suppression at the beginning to hit-and-run tactics to avoid being surrounded, and finally to occasional counterattacks, mostly playing hide-and-seek and escaping.

Surrounded and intercepted by these people, Changsheng was unable to return to the Lingguan Holy Land, nor could he seek help from other major forces. To avoid casualties, Changsheng naturally avoided crowded places, making his situation even more perilous.

Fortunately, the pursuers so far have all fallen below the level of the Dao-Slaying Realm, so Changsheng can still use various means to deal with them.

Finally, just as Changsheng was about to rest after finally getting a chance to catch his breath, a colossal hand descended upon him with overwhelming force.

Chang Sheng's expression changed slightly. This was actually a king who had severed the Dao! He made a decisive move, took out a jade platform, used the array patterns on it to break through the void, and disappeared from the spot, leaving the giant hand empty-handed.

Under the protection of the Ziwei Star by the Great Heavenly Venerable Wuji, all cultivators from the Saint Realm onwards within the Ziwei Star can be detected by the array. Therefore, if a cultivator of this level were to make a move, it would be tantamount to perishing together with the Immortal.

Therefore, the cultivators who came to hunt him down were mainly at the Sendai Realm. Although the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth on Ziwei Star has now fully recovered to its peak, the difficulty of severing the Dao is still not low, and it is still quite dangerous.

Therefore, it was indeed rare for a cultivator of this level to attack him. However, it was fortunate that Changsheng had prepared a large number of jade platforms imprinted with void array patterns before leaving, which allowed him to escape at the critical moment.

At this point, Changsheng had completely lost the ability to fight back and began to use various array platforms to traverse the void, shuttling back and forth.

The array platforms he prepared in advance were quasi-royal level array patterns containing the laws of the void, specially found for him by the Holy Lord of Lingguan. This is a manifestation of the foundation of the Lingguan Holy Land.

Therefore, even though these array patterns were incomplete, he could still easily evade the pursuit of these Dao-Slaying Kings.

Three months have passed since Changsheng left the Lingguan Holy Land. Apart from the first ten days or so when everything was peaceful, he has spent the rest of the time being constantly hunted down and on the run.

This kept him constantly on edge, and his strength began to grow further.

Although he was already very powerful before, that was only due to his talent and the various superior conditions he had during his cultivation. All the trials he encountered were nothing more than trivial matters for him, and although his opponents were not weak, none of them could truly be on par with him.

Moreover, their matches were mainly for friendly sparring, not bloody battles where they risked their lives and futures.

In other words, while immortality is not a flower grown in a greenhouse, it is by no means something that has been forged through countless trials.

In such chaotic times, only those tempered by blood and fire can truly transform the world and become powerful. Therefore, the potential for immortality is further squeezed out.

This was actually intentionally orchestrated by the Holy Master of Lingguan. After all, in such a world, only the strongest can change everything. If Changsheng were to die halfway through his journey, it would only mean that he wasn't the one he was waiting for.

(End of this chapter)