Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 611 Human Affairs

Time flies, and seven thousand years have passed in the blink of an eye. The ten-thousand-year-old Taiyin Human Emperor has become even more powerful, truly reaching the peak of this era, and there is hardly a match for him in the world.

Thanks to his early acquisition of the Laurel Elixir of Immortality and his good relationship with the Celestial Venerable of Longevity, he was able to trade with the Celestial Venerable of Longevity for ginseng fruit, and also use his connection with the Celestial Venerable of Longevity to trade with the White Tiger Emperor and the Black Tortoise Emperor in Kunlun Immortal Mountain and Jade Flower Divine Island to obtain the fruits of the White Tiger Elixir of Immortality and the Black Tortoise Elixir of Immortality.

After all, they have existed for an extremely long time and have accumulated a lot of immortality elixirs and fruits, so they have quite a lot in stock.

The Taiyin Emperor is now incredibly powerful, and they don't want to antagonize him. So, it's not a bad thing to establish a friendly relationship with the Taiyin Emperor by using things that they themselves can't really use.

At this time, both the Black Tortoise Emperor and the White Tiger Emperor had reached the fifth stage of Earth Immortal. Not only did they condense their true bodies of Earth Immortals using the extraordinary land they were in, but they also incorporated the secrets of the Black Tortoise Immortal Elixir and the White Tiger Immortal Elixir into them, making their bodies even more perfect, almost like living immortals.

Having reached this stage, they naturally need to focus their attention primarily on the internal construction of their own blessed land.

In this respect, the White Tiger Emperor has a clear advantage. After all, the Kunlun clan had already established a very complete order under the leadership of the Kunlun Immortal Emperor Ying Shenxiao, and only needed to further develop on this basis.

Moreover, over the long years of development, the ancient star Kunlun has begun to possess some special Dao traces and laws of the Kunlun Immortal Mountain. Therefore, if the White Tiger Emperor wants to expand the Kunlun Immortal Mountain, he only needs to completely assimilate this ancient star to save a lot of hard work.

Therefore, although his progress was not as fast as that of the Underworld Emperor and the Eternal Heavenly Venerable who started much earlier, it was not slow either.

But Xuanwu Emperor was different. Before he became an Earth Immortal, life on Yuhua Divine Island was almost no different from that of wild beasts in the primeval forest. He needed to establish order from scratch.

Although there was no evidence, Emperor Xuanwu still relied on his innate supernatural powers to foresee that the Taiyin Emperor's lifespan would not be short. Moreover, his Yuhua Divine Clan was not as developed as the other Earth Immortals at this time. Therefore, he was very happy to cooperate with the Taiyin Emperor and promote internal development.

Although the White Tiger Emperor did not necessarily need cooperation, he shared weal and woe with the Black Tortoise Emperor, and thus naturally established a good cooperative relationship with him.

Therefore, Changsheng obtained a large number of immortality elixirs, which he could use on those around him.

And because of this, he began many discussions and exchanges with these earth immortals in order to improve his own Dao and Dharma, and to make progress. Moreover, he was also able to exchange various methods of longevity with them.

It was precisely because the Taiyin Emperor obtained many immortality elixirs that, even after ten thousand years, his most important relatives and friends had not yet passed away. They had all begun their second lives and still possessed ample lifespans.

Among these people, Lingguan Shengzhu Yunxian and his master Chen Chong explicitly refused his offer. For them, their life's work had been completed, their cultivation had reached its peak, and all the familiar faces had passed away with time; naturally, they too should depart with time.

After all, Yun Xian had already reached the peak of the Quasi-Ninth level, and the Lingguan Holy Land had reached its current glory during his reign. Therefore, his life was basically complete. Even if he died immediately, he could face the Quasi-Emperor Lingxu and the ancestors of the Lingguan Holy Land with equanimity.

Chen Chong successfully lived a second life, healing all his past wounds. During the time when he was constantly progressing in his immortality and became the Human Emperor, he also cultivated to become a Quasi-Emperor, but he stopped at the middle level of Quasi-Emperor, which was equivalent to the former Lingxu Quasi-Emperor.

As for his career, not to mention that he taught several generations of the backbone of the Lingguan Holy Land, he alone is enough to be remembered in history for his title as the teacher of the Human Emperor. As for the question of life and death, he has long been able to take it in stride, and even if he were to truly face death, he would not have too many distracting thoughts.

However, the two of them were still forced by the Taiyin Emperor in the name of the Emperor to take the elixir of immortality and live a second life.

Among the others, Gu Tan ultimately stopped at the eighth level of the Quasi-Emperor realm, but he saw the descendants of the Undying Golden Body lineage continuously growing in this great world, so he peacefully passed away.

Cangyun has achieved a unique path to enlightenment through his cultivation over the years, but achieving complete enlightenment through this unique path is still a long way off. He accepted the elixir of immortality from the Taiyin Emperor, hoping to go further, explore the pinnacle of this unique path, and leave as much legacy as possible for his descendants.

After all, within the Overlord Body lineage, those who possess Overlord Blood but are not of the Azure Heaven Overlord Body are the mainstream. They should also possess their own secret techniques to gain greater influence.

Among the leaders of other human forces who were also subdued by the Taiyin Emperor, only a very few accepted his goodwill; the others chose to peacefully pass away.

While those who symbolized immortality in their generation are few and far between, the most talented among them have survived thanks to the elixir of immortality bestowed upon them. At the very least, they are all high-ranking Quasi-Emperors, while the most outstanding individuals, such as Xie Yurou, Xiao Ran, and Mu Renqing, have achieved enlightenment through unconventional means. Xin Lang of the Divine Race is also among them.

However, although their achievements in achieving enlightenment through alternative paths differed, none of them reached the state of achieving enlightenment through completely alternative paths.

This also shows that although they possess the potential to attain enlightenment, they are not comparable to true emperors. In a different era, unless they have some extraordinary opportunity to transform themselves, even if they achieve final victory, they will not be able to successfully attain enlightenment.

Among the prodigies still in the mortal realm, only Xin Lingxiao has achieved true and completely unconventional enlightenment. Moreover, thanks to his cultivation of supreme divine blood and his subsequent breaking of the limitations of the Ancient Scripture of Deity Transformation, his combat power is now even stronger. Although he is still not as powerful as a true flawless emperor, his strength is by no means weak.

However, even having reached this point, he was still no match for the Taiyin Human Emperor. Of course, if he lived in a different era, he would have a much higher chance of successfully attaining enlightenment.

Besides these, there were the children of the Taiyin Emperor. The Taiyin Emperor had several children over the past seven thousand years, but he did not allow them to be born. Instead, after giving them some instruction, he sealed them away to be left for future generations.

The Taiyin Emperor knew that, apart from his wife Xie Yurou and Xin Lingxiao, most of these people would not choose to seal themselves or prolong their lives in other ways, but would simply pass away peacefully.

Thinking of this, the Taiyin Emperor couldn't help but feel melancholy. In this way, perhaps in his later years in his first life, the world would be completely silent, all his old friends would have passed away, and only he would remain.

However, he has already decided to embark on the path of immortality in the mortal world and try to live a life of defiance in the human realm. This is a step he must take, and what he is doing now is just a rehearsal.

The Taiyin Emperor was momentarily dazed and summoned the Emperor Seal. Over the years, a large amount of faith power had gathered within the Emperor Seal, making it increasingly independent and powerful. Even without his manipulation, the Emperor Seal could independently revive and continuously unleash its power.

Perhaps if things continue like this, the Human Emperor's Seal can indeed become, as he predicted, a powerful artifact that can protect the human race even without him.

(End of this chapter)