Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 617 Cathode
At the moment when the Taiyin Human Emperor completed his transformation, his originally weakened Dao aura became even more immense and terrifying, surpassing even his peak in his second life.

Clearly, the Taiyin Human Emperor, who lived to be 19,000 years old in his second life, successfully transformed and lived a third life, making his cultivation even stronger as a result.

The human race was naturally delighted with this. Judging from his aura, the Taiyin Human Emperor, having lived his third life, had significantly improved compared to before, most likely having lived a reversed life, which would have resulted in a marked increase in both his strength and lifespan.

This means that even if the Taiyin Human Emperor chooses to ascend in this lifetime, their human race will still have more than 10,000 years of golden development.

As for other races, they could only keep their ulterior motives to themselves and even force themselves to completely abandon conflict with humans.

Judging from the current trend, even if the Taiyin Human Emperor ascends to immortality and leaves the mortal realm in this life, the human race will still be an unshakeable behemoth for at least tens of thousands of years.

Clearly, this era of human prosperity and development, where all races coexist harmoniously, continues.

The already subsiding faith in the Human Emperor has once again stirred up waves that have spread throughout the entire universe. Countless oceans of faith power have continuously flowed into the Human Emperor Seal, making its immortal aura even more prominent.

If the Taiyin Emperor had not used the Emperor's Seal as a vessel for the power of faith and incorporated it entirely into it, perhaps he would have had the hope of condensing a divine embryo with the power of faith and creating a faith body with the power of the imperial path.

But now, all this power of faith has been integrated into the Emperor's Seal, causing the deities within and the seal itself to become incredibly terrifying, almost as if they have come to life. Perhaps if this continues, the Emperor's Seal might even evolve into a celestial artifact.

However, for the Taiyin Emperor, none of this was his focus; his own transformation was what truly mattered.

Having completed his transformation, the Taiyin Human Emperor has been reborn. His body is crystal clear, his black hair flows like a waterfall, and his vigorous blood and energy surge out of Mount Tai and out of the ancient star, causing a vast expanse of the starry sky to tremble, as if a peerless god has been resurrected.

Upon closer inspection, one would discover that every inch of his skin contained patterns formed by the laws of Yin, almost exhausting the mysteries of the Yin laws. This made the current Yin Emperor practically the embodiment of the Yin laws.

If we only consider the laws of Taiyin, then the Taiyin Human Emperor is undoubtedly the strongest being in history, at least in the mythological era and the years that have passed since then, no one can match him.

Of course, this is also because the Supreme Celestial Venerable of Limitless Ultimate has mastered the Way of Yin and Yang, which cannot be separated into its own elements. After all, Yin alone cannot produce, and Yang alone cannot grow; the Way of Yin and Yang naturally cannot be separated into its two poles.

At this point, the Taiyin Emperor felt that his Taiyin Laws were nearing perfection; at least in the realm of humanity, there was almost no room for further growth. In other words, he had now cultivated to the pinnacle of Taiyin.

The principle that things reach their extremes and then reverse, and that adversity leads to prosperity, is an irrefutable truth in the human universe, and the principle that yin gives rise to yang is one of its manifestations.

Now that he has cultivated the Yin Law to its ultimate level, perhaps his next step should be to try to transform the ultimate Yin power into the power of the sun, thereby attempting to achieve the Yin-Yang balance that the Great Heavenly Venerable Wuji once accomplished.

As for this, the Taiyin Emperor had already obtained the Yin-Yang Dao Scripture from the Longevity Heavenly Venerable, so he had some understanding of his future path, unlike those Daoists who had no clue what to do after completing one reversal of life.

In fact, the reason he risked tampering with and optimizing the divine embryo formed from the convergence of immortal essence during his previous transformation was to prepare in advance for the direction he would explore in this life. After all, if he could achieve the balance of Yin and Yang and thus live a reverse life, he would most likely need to modify his physical constitution in a way similar to how the Limitless Heavenly Venerable evolved the Yin-Yang Dao Body.

However, these things should be put on hold for now, since this is not something that can be accomplished overnight.

At this point, Mount Tai was of little use to the Taiyin Emperor, so his place of seclusion in this life would return to Ziwei Star.

Of course, before leaving this place, the Taiyin Emperor used his further enhanced Taiyin Laws to modify the Emperor Seal again, making it even more divine.

The connection between the Human Emperor Seal and him has weakened considerably; it is no longer his natal divine weapon. Therefore, he still needs to actively refine it in order to synchronize his own progress with the seal.

The Taiyin Divine Seal that he later refined evolved along with him at all times, successfully replacing his natal magic weapon.

Although this divine seal is not as miraculous or powerful as the Human Emperor's Seal, it is purer and perfectly in line with the personal Dao and Dharma of the Taiyin Human Emperor. It does not contain any elements such as the Human Dao Divine Fist, which are specifically used to serve the great cause of the human race.

After completing his mission, the Taiyin Emperor departed Mount Tai and embarked on another round of touring. Naturally, as one of the sacred sites among the ancient human stars, alongside the Ziwei Star, the Primordial Ancient Star was a place where the Taiyin Emperor would preach and offer guidance to human cultivators. This was a customary practice during the Taiyin Emperor's touring.

Of course, he also had another purpose for his tour: to investigate and punish the most wicked and evil cultivators within the human race. However, since the human race had been on the rise previously, such cases were relatively rare, and there weren't many that required his special attention.

However, since humanity has already reached the pinnacle of the universe, further development would mean challenging the great era created by the Supreme Celestial Venerable Wuji and the Primordial Celestial Venerable during the mythological era. Therefore, a sense of complacency inevitably arises within humanity. When the drive is insufficient, internal conflicts naturally become difficult to suppress.

Therefore, in this round, the Taiyin Emperor severely punished many people and also selected some of the most virtuous individuals from the major human forces to serve as law enforcers and supervise the various regions of the human race.

After completing all this, the Taiyin Emperor returned to Ziwei Star and came once again to Tianyuan City, which he had built with his own hands.

Despite not returning for many years, Ziwei Star has not changed much. Lingguan Holy Land remains the largest power on Ziwei Star, while Taiyin Sect, which he personally founded, has become the second largest power on Ziwei Star, even though he did not provide much support for it.

The Taiyin Emperor simply walked around the Ziwei Star for a while, preached the Dao, and then devoted himself to studying the Yin-Yang Dao Scripture again.

This time, he will prioritize studying the section on the transformation of Yin and Yang in this scripture, in order to help himself achieve a state of Yin giving rise to Yang and Yin and Yang working in harmony.

Of course, the first step for the Taiyin Human Emperor was to refer to the Laurel Elixir of Immortality and further refine some of the subtle aspects of his Taiyin Laws, ultimately achieving a state of perfection.

(End of this chapter)