Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 560 The Ultimate Ancient Road
"The son of Emperor Ming?"

Chang Sheng and the others immediately realized why even the Divine Blood Supreme treated this mysterious member of the divine race with such respect. However, this also meant that one of their competitors was a prince.

Emperor Ming cultivated the supreme divine bloodline back then. As his prince, how powerful would his bloodline be? Even if it wasn't the supreme divine bloodline, it would probably be equivalent to a very powerful divine emperor body.

In this way, even if Changsheng and Mu Renqing developed their physical constitution to the extreme, they would hardly have any advantage. Therefore, he can definitely be considered a formidable opponent.

However, this has increased the intensity of competition for the ultimate ancient path to this generation by an immeasurable amount. This has caused Changsheng and Mu Renqing some concern.

Although Mu Renqing did not obtain the title of Human King, he still, like Changsheng, aspired to become the true Human Emperor and lead humanity to a glorious future. However, it now seems that this goal is somewhat beyond his reach.

However, he quickly rallied. After all, only in the most terrible and difficult times can extraordinary heroes be forged to turn the tide. If he failed, it would only mean that he was not the chosen one.

Changsheng didn't feel much about this, but he did feel that it would be quite difficult for him to become the Human Emperor.

Changsheng and Mu Renqing weren't interested in Xiao Ran's romantic escapades, but Mo Tian and the others surrounded him and interrogated him, making Xiao Ran feel utterly humiliated.

However, things turned out to be pretty much what Changsheng and Mu Renqing had thought. Xiao Ran originally thought he had just met someone with a divine body like himself, so he developed feelings for them, traveled together, and fell in love during the process.

But after that, Xiao Ran learned that she was actually a god. Under the Ming Emperor's tutelage, the gods grew stronger and stronger. Although they did not openly sever ties with the human race, their title as one of the true bloodlines of the human race had become virtually meaningless.

Although the gods continue to absorb divine bodies and other physical constitutions from humans to ensure the growth and expansion of their race, and they also have the art of fixing the gods to maintain the stable inheritance of their race, they still tend to be conservative and closed off.

Therefore, Xiao Ran almost became a son-in-law of the God Clan. Obviously, he couldn't stay with the God Clan, so he decided to leave without saying goodbye and come back to settle things once he had enough strength.

However, it was clear that the divine woman knew him very well and had already guessed his likely choice from his attitude. Therefore, she contacted her elder brother, the current Divine Blood Supreme, Xin Lang, in advance. So Xiao Ran was intercepted by Xin Lang not long after he left.

However, since the difference in strength between the two was not significant, Xiao Ran managed to escape and fled deep into the Starry Sky Ancient Road. Therefore, Xin Lang deliberately forced him into another ancient road.

In the end, Xiao Ran was stopped by the son of the Ming Emperor, who had already gone deep into the area, and was imprisoned. However, since this place was very close to the Ultimate Ancient Road, they went ahead to the Ultimate Ancient Road to leave their names.

Although Xiao Ran's strength is currently slightly weaker than Chang Sheng and the others, the fact that he was able to intercept him and prevent him from escaping shows that this son of the Ming Emperor is indeed exceptionally powerful.

Chang Sheng said, "Brother Xiao, you can go with peace of mind. The situation is beyond your control now, so you should just go along with it."

"Moreover, this ultimate ancient road will open soon, and you won't be staying with the gods for long. Once the ultimate ancient road is open, we will naturally have the opportunity to help you extricate yourself."

Xiao Ran sighed; this was actually his idea as well. He had fled deep into the ancient road all the way there in order to break the deadlock by using the ultimate ancient road.

After all, the gods are now one of the top races in the entire universe, so it's really not good for them to break off relations.

After leaving his name, Xin Lang took Xiao Ran back to the God Clan with a dark face, while Xin Lingxiao, like Chang Sheng and the others, stayed in front of the Ultimate Ancient Road.

As time passed, five years later, the Ultimate Ancient Road finally opened. During this period, more than four hundred Great Sages left their mark on this place, which is an incredibly terrifying number.

However, considering the accumulation of countless millennia, even if not all of them gathered in this era, there must have been a considerable number. By this calculation, there are probably three hundred prodigies belonging to this era, which does indeed align with the trajectory of a great era.

During this time, Changsheng had roughly learned about the top contenders among the participants of the Ultimate Ancient Road.

In this life, there are two princes: one is Xin Lingxiao, the son of Emperor Ming, whom they had met before, and the other is the son of Emperor Guangming.

Of course, both Emperor Ming and Emperor Guangming had more than one prince; the one born this time was just one of their princes.

Besides them, there are also three ancient emperors who rebuilt their cultivation but severed their supreme status: Brahma, Five Qi, and Xuanhuang, as well as a young god of beasts.

After that, there were Mu Renqing with the Human King Physique, Mo Tian with the Primal Demon Physique, Xiao Ran, Shen Lang of the God Clan, and some other special human physiques from other star regions.

All things considered, the fact that the human race still has more than twenty prodigies participating in the ultimate ancient road despite such a bleak situation is a true testament to the saying "even a starved camel is bigger than a horse."

Of course, the most outstanding talents among these four hundred-plus people were those whose bloodline power was unprecedentedly strong, coming from various ancient clans.

Filled with fighting spirit, Changsheng entered the ultimate ancient path and began his final trial.

As in the past, they have maintained a high and steady pace of progress, neither seeking quick success nor complacency, but making remarkable progress.

In fact, although many geniuses have embarked on the ultimate ancient path, not all of them are aiming to attain enlightenment. Most of them simply hope to go further.

After all, once one reaches the Great Sage level, it's indeed very difficult for someone to accumulate knowledge and skills late in life to achieve great things again.

With the most outstanding talents displaying their extraordinary abilities, most of the other talents naturally realized the gap between them and thus settled for second best.

Time flies, and three hundred years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Of those four hundred or so prodigies, nearly half of them faded away in disappointment. Some died in battle, some encountered problems in their cultivation and passed away, and others had their Dao hearts collapse and gave up on continuing the competition.

Of the remaining half, most had already fallen behind. Some had simply settled into a more relaxed mindset, focusing on self-improvement rather than pursuing enlightenment; others had become followers of the most outstanding talents, investing in their chosen sides to gamble on their own and their race's future.

There are only about twenty or thirty of the most outstanding geniuses left. They are basically on par with each other, constantly breaking through in the past three hundred years, and finally becoming the peak of the Great Saint, close to the Quasi-Emperor.

However, among the few who emerged from Ziwei Star, only Changsheng and Mu Renqing remained in this group. The others, including the Primal Demon Body Mo Tian and Xiao Ran, could no longer maintain the same rapid progress as them.

(End of this chapter)