Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 55 Fortune tricks people
Liang Yu did not agree directly, but said, "Are you really so comfortable letting me in? What if I have ulterior motives? Then the flesh and blood and Dao fruit of the Moral Celestial Venerable will all be mine. Your four weapons won't be able to stop me."

The deity of the Taiji Diagram smiled wryly and said, "You jest, Heavenly Venerable. We have no choice now. Since you have found this place, we can only trust you."

As the weapon that has followed the Celestial Venerable of Morality the longest, he is very clear that the Celestial Venerable of Limitless Heaven before him is no weaker than his master, the Celestial Venerable of Morality, not to mention that he also possesses the immortal artifact, the Desolate Tower.

If they hadn't found them, that would have been fine, but now that they're already at the door, no matter what they do, these weapons have no way to resist.

The deity of the Taiji Diagram held up a jade scroll and said, "This is a new Taoist scripture that the master has recently compiled. It contains numerical secrets, forbidden Taoist techniques, the formula for the Nine-Turn Immortal Elixir, methods of weapon crafting, and research on the method of longevity. Please accept it, Heavenly Venerable, to heal the master."

Liang Yu sighed, "You are very thoughtful. If the Celestial Venerable of Morality has not yet severed my life force, then I will naturally save you."

He took the jade scroll and looked straight to the end. To save the Celestial Venerable of Morality, he needed to know what method he ultimately used and address the root cause.

The method of immortality used by the Celestial Venerable of Morality this time comes from the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is a miracle created by the power of creation in heaven and earth. From a stone embryo that was clearly inanimate, a powerful life force was nurtured, and eventually, it was born in flesh and blood.

Furthermore, due to the convergence of the laws of heaven and earth, the Holy Spirit will naturally master its own ancient scriptures and secret techniques during the birth of its primordial spirit.

Throughout history, many enlightened beings have conducted detailed studies of the Holy Spirit. While the Moral Celestial Venerable may not have been the earliest, he was certainly the one who studied it most deeply among those who attained enlightenment in the mythological era. Of course, later emperors may also have achieved similar accomplishments.

In short, the fourth incarnation of the Celestial Venerable of Morality in his later years initially intended to use the special immortal power of Kunlun Mountain to assist him in completing his transformation.

However, since the Kunlun Immortal Formation was difficult to break, and he lacked sufficient energy and time in his later years, he had no choice but to settle for another option.

Finally, he found the ancient star of antiquity. It was not as wondrous as the Kunlun Immortal Mountain, but it was an excellent place to nurture corpses.

The method originally set by the Celestial Venerable of Morality was similar to that of the Celestial Venerable of Spiritual Treasure, both involving transforming themselves into stone figures, drawing upon the power of heaven and earth to nurture the Holy Spirit, and undergoing a transformation in the process.

However, upon seeing the special Dao traces here, the Celestial Venerable of Morality changed his original plan, seeking greater results.

Corpse raising is essentially about giving new life to a lifeless corpse, while the birth of the Holy Spirit is about giving life to something that was originally lifeless. Although they seem unrelated, they have something in common.

The Celestial Venerable of Morality passed away here. Apart from retaining a trace of his undying spiritual light, he was almost truly dead. He hid his lifeless body in the earth's veins, nurturing it with countless array patterns that were combined with the Dao traces of heaven and earth.

These array patterns possess both the effects of nourishing corpses and transforming them into holy spirits. After all, a corpse is also an inanimate object, and it may not be impossible to transform it into a holy spirit like a stone statue; while nourishing a corpse is essentially about giving a lifeless body a new lease on life.

Under these two effects, the immortal light of the Celestial Venerable Morality rapidly grew, eventually giving birth to an astonishing immortal embryo within the old body.

After reading it, Liang Yu couldn't help but exclaim, "The Celestial Venerable of Morality is truly an extraordinary person. He has such ingenious ideas and almost succeeded. He is worthy of being called the Celestial Venerable of Morality."

Seeing that Liang Yu had understood the principle, the Taiji Diagram separated its array patterns and invited Liang Yu to enter the place where the earth's veins converged.

He said to Liang Yu during his observation: "The master's body has not always been here, but has been constantly moving along the earth's veins, and has only been nurtured for thousands of years in various places on the ancient star."

"But two hundred thousand years ago, the earth's veins suddenly changed, and the master's body was locked in this place and could not move. Originally, although the state of the immortal embryo that was being nurtured in this body was constantly fluctuating, it was gradually taking shape." "But from that day on, the master's immortal embryo began to weaken and weaker, and the immortal light and Dao essence accumulated in his body were constantly being taken away by heaven and earth and lost in the world."

"If this continues, the master will probably be completely drained, leaving only an old body that is almost completely drained."

"We are powerless to change this trend. We can only temporarily replenish the immortal embryo of the master with our own essence to buy more time, but there is still no improvement. Until today, the Heavenly Venerable has come here, and the master is finally saved."

Liang Yu was slightly taken aback. So, the fate of the Celestial Venerable of Morality in his later years was quite clear. Without his arrival, the immortal embryo nurtured by the Celestial Venerable of Morality would have been gradually drained away and eventually disappeared completely.

His original body was likely sent away from this place by the four treasures he left behind, and then he regained spiritual connection and became Laozi again.

No wonder the Celestial Venerable of Morality, despite possessing the combat power of a Heavenly Emperor, behaved no differently from other imperial corpses after communicating with spirits. It turns out that his Dao Fruit Laws were almost entirely annihilated along with the demise of his immortal embryo.

Only an empty shell possessing spiritual power is comparable to other imperial corpses possessing spiritual power, which is consistent with the strength of the Moral Celestial Venerable.

Liang Yu pulled his scattered thoughts back, opened his Source Heavenly Eye, and used Source Techniques to examine the layout of the place. In the end, he discovered the mistake of the Moral Celestial Venerable.

The Celestial Venerable of Morality was indeed highly skilled. His transformation process required harmony and unity with the laws of heaven and earth and the special Dao traces of the ancient star. Therefore, the array patterns he laid out were truly ingenious.

However, the laws and environment of this world are not static. They do not have constant seasons, but are constantly undergoing various subtle changes amidst ups and downs.

Although the Celestial Venerable of Morality had taken these factors into account in his array patterns, human power has its limits, and he ultimately could not calculate the full extent of destiny. With each change in the world, the Celestial Venerable of Morality's calculations began to show increasingly larger errors, and his array patterns began to lose synchronization with the laws of heaven and earth and the Dao traces of the ancient primordial stars.

This meant that the growth of his immortal embryo was not as smooth as he had anticipated. For a full million years, his immortal embryo remained in a state of neither birth nor death. However, it did show a slight, slow growth.

If this trend continues, then the Celestial Venerable Morality will still have a chance to succeed even after hundreds of thousands or millions of years.

However, two hundred thousand years ago, the arrangement of the Celestial Venerable of Morality went awry. The array patterns he set up touched upon the ancient array remaining in Mount Tai.

Although these ancient formations were mostly damaged, a trace of residual power still disrupted the arrangements made by the Celestial Venerable of Morality. As the saying goes, a thousand-mile dike is breached by an ant hole; the Celestial Venerable of Morality's formation patterns were thrown into chaos by this small amount of power, and could no longer maintain their original effect.

Ultimately, he was trapped within the earth's veins, unable to move any further. Even the celestial embryo nurtured within his old body was gradually drained of its power, weakening little by little.

Some of this dissipated essence was absorbed by Mount Tai, while the rest dispersed into the ancient primordial star.

The Celestial Venerable of Morality originally wanted to use the power of creation of heaven and earth to nurture himself, but instead, heaven and earth drained his essence, making Mount Tai and the ancient star of the primordial era grow stronger. This is truly a cruel twist of fate.

Liang Yu couldn't help but sigh. Even a figure like the Moral Celestial Venerable could lose everything due to some minor unexpected circumstances. Truly, even supernatural powers cannot overcome fate.

However, if asked who in this universe could save the current Moral Celestial, there are two people who are most likely to succeed.

One is the Underworld Lord who proved his Dao through corpses and created the Origin Technique, and the other is Liang Yu, who is well-versed in the Origin Scripture and the Underworld Emperor Scripture.

(End of this chapter)