Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 572 Visiting Various Regions
Over the past tens of thousands of years, the human race in various star systems has been divided up by a number of ancient races through tacit cooperation, becoming isolated islands that are difficult to contact with the outside world.

The human race is too powerful and has too deep a foundation. No ancient race, not even a top-tier race that has produced an emperor, can compare with the human race.

Even if we bring out the old Kunlun clan from the mythical era, which once produced nine Dao-proving beings, it still cannot compare with the entire human race.

Therefore, many ancient tribes spontaneously joined forces against the human race, dividing them into smaller groups so that each tribe only had to deal with a portion of the human population. Under this divide-and-rule strategy, the human race not only suffered heavy losses and repeated defeats, but also lost contact with each other due to the long-term separation between the tribes.

Over time, this has greatly reduced the unity within the human race.

Therefore, although Changsheng's visit to the human race in various star fields was to help them get out of their predicament, the more important purpose was to reunite the gradually split human race into a whole.

Along the way, Changsheng saw the human race in different situations. Some of the human races in the star fields were even more fortunate than those on Ziwei Star, as no ancient races had ever come close to targeting them.

In some star systems, the human race, like on Ziwei Star, waged a long and arduous war against them; in other star systems, the human race had their homes directly attacked, their land shattered, and their lives devastated, with the survivors becoming food and slaves.

In this process, the human race has righteous warriors who fight to the end, opportunists who engage in double-dealing, and traitors who betray their race... and so on.

Therefore, although Changsheng was unwilling to kill his own people, he still stained himself with the blood of many human traitors while helping the human race to rise again.

These experiences made Changsheng sigh at the unpredictability of human nature. However, although there was always ugliness among humans that he found hard to look at, there was also nobility that he admired and loved, so Changsheng's state of mind was not affected.

During his journey, his strength continued to improve, and his fame spread far and wide. In fact, many human races in various star systems began to regard him as the true human emperor, and countless forces of faith gathered from the places he passed through.

Although Changsheng wanted to become the Human Emperor, he hoped that the title of Human Emperor would be a title that could be passed down, an honor that every leader who could lead the human race to a more glorious future could bear, rather than referring to him alone.

After all, he can only do his best to make humanity better, but he can't take care of everything about humanity forever. That would not only hinder his own path of cultivation, but also gradually restrict humanity itself.

Therefore, what he needs is for the descendants of the human race to follow in his footsteps, forge a different path, and become the new human emperor.

In other words, Changsheng hopes to establish the Human Emperor as a significant achievement on the path of cultivation for human cultivators, inspiring future generations of human prodigies to spontaneously attempt to follow this path. Everything he is doing now is primarily to set a standard for future generations, a standard for being revered as the Human Emperor.

Therefore, Changsheng deliberately ensured that the human emperor's faith, which spread throughout various star regions, was faceless and did not directly point to him personally, but rather summarized the image of the human race as a whole as much as possible.

Considering his future cultivation, Changsheng had never seen the power of faith refined to enhance his own cultivation, even though it was an extremely attractive and tempting option.

After he deliberately avoided completely binding himself to the "Human Emperor", the difficulty of refining the power of faith increased considerably, and this might also make his Dao fruit impure.

Therefore, even though this could accelerate his advancement in cultivation, he still did not do so. But even so, Changsheng's cultivation continued to improve, although the progress was slow due to his high level, it seemed as if there were no bottlenecks and he was not stuck.

During his travels through the star fields, Changsheng followed the star map he had obtained from his previous experiences on Ziwei Star and his own training, traversing countless star fields in order to connect all the core areas of the human race that he knew.

Upon arriving in a new star system, Changsheng would obtain star maps from the human forces there to refine his own. Thus, his plans grew ever larger, and the star systems he designed expanded ever more. Changsheng had never imagined that the universe was so vast, and that the footprints of his human ancestors would be spread across such a wide expanse of space.

As he followed in the footsteps of his human ancestors and ventured into various parts of the universe, he witnessed countless lost histories and saw pasts that had long been completely forgotten.

Through these interwoven fragments, Changsheng seemed to see his ancestors blazing trails and overcoming obstacles to explore more living space for the human race, so that it could grow stronger and more prosperous.

Chang Sheng couldn't help but think that perhaps the greatest gain from this trip was not the bloody battles with various races, nor the recognition of his title as the Human Emperor by the human races of various star regions, but rather piecing together the history of human development from these fragments.

This rich history, encompassing countless developments of civilizations and the changes of time, unconsciously broadened Changsheng's vision and mind to a very high level.

Although these things did not directly improve Changsheng's cultivation level, they made him feel as if he had returned to his original simplicity, entering an unprecedented state of perfection.

As Changsheng's footprints expanded, his reputation naturally spread throughout the universe. This benevolent, wise, powerful, and decisive human emperor soon became the leader of the human race.

This applies not only to the major powers, but also to the small groups of humans in remote corners of the world. Because no matter how few or weak their numbers were along the way, Changsheng never abandoned a single human.

In addition, during this process, Changsheng engaged in several life-or-death battles with traitors from the ancient race and even the human race. He personally killed more than ten quasi-emperors from the ancient race, as well as two quasi-emperors who betrayed the human race, earning him great fame.

At this point, all human forces placed high hopes on Changsheng. Whether they genuinely wanted humanity to grow stronger, were simply opportunistic because of Changsheng's strength, or were influenced by his personal charisma, in the minds of most humans in the human universe, Changsheng could be considered the one everyone hoped for.

And more and more human followers began to appear around him, representing the recognition of immortality by the main human cultivators in various star fields.

This is true even for the primordial ancient star, the home of the Primordial Celestial Venerable, a star with a very low profile but which can definitely be considered a top-tier life-bearing ancient star.

In fact, because the great array left by the Primordial Celestial Venerable on the ancient star was too powerful, and far more active than other arrays on the ancient star, very few ancient races were able to discover this place from beginning to end. Those ancient races that dared to invade were basically all annihilated. It can be said that the safety level of the human race on the ancient star was even higher than that on Ziwei Star.

However, perhaps due to the influence of the Primordial Celestial Venerable, the ancient races of the prehistoric world were very enthusiastic about helping other human races recover lost territories and end wars, and actively participated in the matter.

If it weren't for Changsheng's strong persuasion, the human race of the ancient primordial star would have immediately launched a pre-battle mobilization, with all high-level cultivators coming out, since they had a protective array in place and were definitely free from worries.

From then on, the title of Emperor Changsheng was almost universally accepted by most of the human race.

At this time, Changsheng had been away from Ziwei Star for over a hundred years. During these years, Changsheng continuously broke through his limits, reaching the ninth level of the Quasi-Emperor realm.

The nine-hundred-year-old Quasi-Emperor of the Ninth Heaven, although still some distance from the ultimate leap, can definitely be described as a rare feat in ancient times.

(End of this chapter)