Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 615 Research
The laurel elixir of immortality is the ultimate form of the Yin principle, and it can even be said that it contains a celestial Yin principle that surpasses the Yin principle of the human world. However, due to external environmental factors, it has been downgraded, resulting in its incompleteness and becoming a special state that is half human and half celestial.

Even so, the mysteries within were enough for the Taiyin Emperor to comprehend Taiyin Laws different from those he cultivated. Therefore, this laurel elixir of immortality was absolutely the most suitable elixir of immortality for him.

So even though he was simply prolonging his life with the elixir of immortality, he was able to sense the subtle, special Yin laws within its fruit, which allowed his cultivation to make a slight progress.

After living a second life, the Taiyin Emperor felt an extremely strong sense of urgency. Although he had felt his lifespan constantly slipping away before, he still had the elixir of immortality as a last resort, and death was always just a step away.

But now, unless he obtains the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill, which was only mastered by a few people in the mythical era, he only has 18,000 years left.

This timeframe is extremely long for most cultivators, but it's not enough for the Taiyin Human Emperor, who seeks to find the method of reversing life.

Therefore, the Taiyin Emperor temporarily entrusted the task of protecting the human race to the Emperor Seal and quickly devoted himself to arduous cultivation.

Thanks to the continuous blessing of faith and the great array set up by the Taiyin Emperor on Mount Tai that can draw on some of the power of Mount Tai, the Emperor's Seal can remain in a state of autonomous recovery for a long time.

Furthermore, it can even roughly perceive the condition of the human races in various regions through the power of faith and the stone tablets of the Divine Fist of Humanity left behind by the Taiyin Human Emperor.

Therefore, the Taiyin Emperor himself was essentially freed up, and only major events would trigger his actions.

Regarding the methods of achieving immortality, the Taiyin Human Emperor mainly focused on three directions.

First, he wanted to use the Taihuang Scripture and several other extraordinary immortal scriptures he obtained from the other four earth immortals to study how these special laws transformed the cultivator's physique and enabled it to undergo a metamorphosis.

The reason he left Ziwei Star and came to Mount Tai was because he wanted to study the Taihuang Scripture, and naturally he could not leave Mount Tai.

The second direction is the laurel elixir of immortality that he has possessed for some time and has been studying for a while. The laws within this elixir of immortality, which are perfectly suited to him, contain the potential method of transformation.

As for the third direction, it is the Immortal Essence of Immortality. Although the methods used by those who have attained enlightenment throughout history to accumulate the Immortal Essence of Immortality vary slightly from one another, they are essentially the same and belong to the same category of methods.

The reason why the Taiyin Emperor chose this direction was not only because this transformation method has a relatively high success rate, or rather, a slightly larger number of successful cases, but also because he himself had actually come into contact with this method.

His master, Chen Chong, burned his life essence, causing severe damage to his own essence and a rapid loss of life force.

But even in this situation where death was almost certain without divine medicine and elixirs, Chen Chong rejuvenated himself through continuous cultivation and a tranquil and detached mindset, living out a second life.

The Taiyin Emperor had carefully studied the latter half of this process, and naturally gained some insights into it.

In addition, the remaining divine thought in the black gourd he obtained from the Beast God also survived a lifetime in its prime by accumulating immortal essence.

That lingering thought had transmitted all its insights and research on this method to the Taiyin Human Emperor, so the Taiyin Human Emperor was also fully aware of the entire process of that ancient venerable's resurrection.

With this double blessing, the Taiyin Human Emperor still has a clear advantage in accumulating immortal essence. Of course, the method of merging the primordial spirit with the Dao weapon was more detailed and complete in the message passed to him by the remnant spirit of that ancient venerable, but it is clear that no one has ever succeeded on this path.

Therefore, even though the Human Emperor Seal has become extremely powerful, he still has no intention of taking this path.

Having determined its direction, the Taiyin Emperor began pursuing two parallel paths, continuously exploring methods for immortality and transformation.

At this time, although the Taiyin Human Emperor no longer appeared in the human universe, his aura of the Great Dao still suppressed all the heavens, showing his supreme status as the only one of his kind. Therefore, the human universe fell into a long-lost peace.

During this period, the human race continued its previous golden age, passionately striving for further progress, and its overall strength grew stronger and stronger.

Meanwhile, the four great immortal realms of the underworld, the Immortal Mausoleum, Kunlun Immortal Mountain, and Yuhua Divine Island, which had little interaction with the human world for tens of thousands of years due to the obscurity of the laws of heaven and earth, have begun to cooperate closely with the human race and develop together.

Therefore, the rise of the human race is unstoppable, and it is constantly moving towards the glorious era that was once achieved in the mythical age.

A significant portion of the strength of other races was purged by the Taiyin Human Emperor because they had previously targeted the human race. Therefore, outside the human race's sphere of influence, countless emerging races began to stir, constantly accumulating power and starting to replace those previously declining races.

During these years, the Taiyin Emperor devoted himself to cultivation, and unknowingly became so immersed in it that he could hardly perceive the passage of time.

In the blink of an eye, ten thousand years had passed, and the Taiyin Emperor ended his seclusion.

Although he could not fully comprehend the Thai King Sutra due to a low degree of compatibility, the Taiyin Emperor still managed to complete half of it thanks to his superior comprehension.

This level of Taihuang Sutra cannot transform him, nor can it allow him to cultivate into an Earth Immortal through Mount Tai. However, it can allow him to further utilize the primordial power of Mount Tai. It is even entirely feasible to use this to absorb the primordial power of Mount Tai to extend his lifespan by more than a thousand years.

At this moment, the Taiyin Emperor used this opportunity to mobilize the power of Mount Tai's origin to further refine the Emperor Seal, making it even more divine.

As for his own research on the transformation of immortal essence, the Taiyin Emperor has already found a clear direction and has condensed a lot of life essence within his body.

This was thanks to his study of the scriptures from various wondrous lands and the Taihuang Scripture. The Taiyin Human Emperor used these scriptures to study the principles and processes by which the special laws from these wondrous lands transformed the physique of cultivators. Based on this experience, he attempted to further transform his Taiyin body using the Taiyin laws he had comprehended from the Laurel Elixir of Immortality, which were different from his own.

Although he was unable to completely change his physique, he still accumulated a large amount of immortal essence through this process.

After refining the Emperor's Seal, the Taiyin Emperor embarked on another journey, touring the human universe. Seeing that most of the human race he encountered was in a positive, enterprising, and upward-looking state, constantly striving for the development of humanity, the Taiyin Emperor smiled with satisfaction, ended his tour, and returned to Mount Tai.

It seems he can now relax and focus on his own transformation.

(End of this chapter)