Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 63 Dark Power (Seeking First Subscription)

Liang Yu strolled along the path to immortality and soon reached its end. Judging from the lingering aura, this should be one of the paths to immortality that the Desolate Heavenly Emperor had once created, but it was clearly a failed attempt.

At the end of this path to immortality stands a stone tablet, left by the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.

No, this seems to be a seal.

Liang Yu frowned slightly. There seemed to be a strange aura emanating from beneath the stone tablet, as if there was a spatial rift connecting to another realm.

But what's most terrifying is that the aura emanating from the other side is somewhat similar to the dark primordial spirit of Lingbao Tianzun. Could there be a dark force on the other side of the crack?

It is clear that the stone tablet left by the Desolate Emperor was intended to seal this power and prevent it from flowing into the mortal realm. However, under the erosion of these powers over the years, the seal has begun to gradually break.

So you specifically brought me here just to do hard labor?
Liang Yu was speechless, but this matter was indeed of great importance. He then laid out layers of array patterns, adding multiple layers of his own seal on top of repairing the original seal.

During this process, he casually drew out a wisp of dark power and absorbed it into his body. Sure enough, he soon began to experience various extreme and uncontrollable emotions, and even his physical body began to show signs of change.

Liang Yu decisively extinguished this trace of power completely. Indeed, it was too early for him to adapt to this power; he could only seal it away for now and return it once he had become stronger.

However, these dark forces will likely break the seal within tens of thousands of years, enter the path to immortality, and gradually collapse. They will then use that point to directly invade the mortal realm.

Why didn't this happen at all in the original timeline?
Liang Yu thought of one person: the Emperor.

Emperor Venerable was the first cultivator in the mythological era to reach the level of Heavenly Emperor in terms of combat power, and he also established the Heavenly Court based on the creation theory of the ancient Heavenly Court.

So, will he actively search for traces left by the Desolate Emperor?
Furthermore, the fact that he refined the Immortal Cauldron to attack the path to immortality shows that he must have tried to attack and explore other paths to immortality before.

Perhaps he obtained the Immortal Treasure Map during this process, or at least some of the information contained within it may have originated from this process.

Perhaps in the original timeline, these dark forces were encountered by the Emperor who was exploring the path to immortality. Thus, perhaps out of curiosity, he deliberately risked his life, or perhaps simply because he was careless and failed to dodge, the Emperor was corrupted by these dark forces.

Thus, the Emperor began his self-destruction amidst the tug-of-war between his two consciousnesses.

After all, the Emperor's behavior was too outrageous. When the entire sect ascended to immortality, almost every Supreme Being knew that he was going to perform a blood sacrifice; the secrecy was simply too poor.

Then look at our Heavenly Emperor Ye. He used his eldest disciple to undergo repeated tribulations to deceive everyone, allowing a bunch of people to directly reach the initial stage of enlightenment, while the Supreme Being of the Forbidden Zone remained completely unaware. Both established Heavenly Courts, so why is there such a huge difference?

Moreover, the most incredible thing is that those supreme beings of the forbidden zones conspired to betray the emperor right under his nose, and the Undying Emperor directly cooperated with his mortal enemy, the Kunlun clan, but he was completely unaware of it.

He knows nothing about what others are doing to him, but others know exactly what he is planning to do. Is that reasonable?

How could this be the supreme Heavenly Emperor who could rebuild the Heavenly Court, rule over most of the universe, and command the worship of all gods and spirits?

The same thing happened afterward. After becoming a Red Dust Immortal, he formed his own faction. Even though Ye Fan's side initially had three Red Dust Immortals with the greatest power, he still had a chance to win amidst the chaos if he joined forces with the Undying Emperor.

As a result, he waited until the Undying Emperor and his underlings were all dead before he made his move. Then, Duan De, the fourth member of Ye Fan's camp, arrived, and these people, working together from the inside and outside, completely thwarted all his plans.

As a result, he was ganged up on in a righteous attack and killed on the spot without even a proper fight scene. His brainless behavior is completely inconsistent with his previous glorious achievements; he's practically a different person.

Moreover, even after the Heavenly Court's first general, Chuan Ying, and a group of loyal followers remained completely oblivious to the fall of the Heavenly Court and the Emperor's feigned death, they still remained steadfastly loyal.

They weren't fools. If the Immortal Emperor and the other supreme beings could see it, how could their true confidants not see it at all?

It's one thing to disregard the others, but Chuan Ying was Ye Fan's chosen one who would surely attain enlightenment in a new era, and it's very strange that he was completely unaware of it.

Considering the situation of Lingbao Tianzun's two primordial spirits, perhaps the Emperor is similar. He deliberately shows his normal side to those subordinates he truly values, while revealing his dark side to outsiders he doesn't care about.

Liang Yu pulled himself out of his thoughts and began to continue exploring this path to immortality.

After all, this trip was most likely part of the Desolate Emperor's plan. They looked at each other across endless years atop Mount Tai, thus creating a subtle connection.

It was because of this connection that Liang Yu finally saw the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin for the first time; and the other party also used this opportunity to let him perfect his seal.

Given such a wonderful connection, it wouldn't be right to just conscript men without giving them any benefits, would it?

Soon, Liang Yu discovered the stone tablet left by the Desolate Emperor once again. Among it was a cultivation technique called the Undying Scripture.

However, this is not the complete Immortal Scripture, nor is it even the original content. This part consists of various experiments and conjectures made by the Desolate Heavenly Emperor based on the Immortal Scripture regarding the immortality of the primordial spirit.

For others, this content might not be of much value, but for Liang Yu, it was a godsend. Based on these insights, Liang Yu could further improve his previous level of cultivation techniques, and even create his own unique secret art for cultivating the primordial spirit.

Once his primordial spirit has grown to a certain level, he can use the Divine Splitting Technique to create more primordial spirits, thereby accelerating his cultivation speed.

Liang Yu originally thought that his path to mastering all laws would probably not be completed until the fourth or even fifth life, but now it seems that he has a chance to achieve it in this life.

However, could it be that the Emperor in the original timeline gained these insights, cultivated his primordial spirit to become even stronger, and then confidently went to test whether his primordial spirit was truly immortal, and then...

Seeing that he had gained nothing else, Liang Yu took the desolate pagoda and struck towards the end of the path to immortality, thus opening up another section of the path.

During this process, Liang Yu felt the impact of this counterforce, and he thus confirmed why the path to immortality that Beidou in later generations could not be broken through by severing the supreme being, because this process required too much qi and blood and endurance.

However, apart from the ethereal, otherworldly aura of the Arctic Light, there was nothing along this path. Liang Yu looked around through the Path to Immortality but couldn't find any strange world. It seems that not just any path leads to this world.

Beyond the Path to Immortality, the supreme beings of the various forbidden zones were eagerly awaiting the outcome. Although they were quite certain that Liang Yu could not possibly break into the Immortal Realm, they still wanted to see the result.

At this moment, the Chaos Cave opened again, and countless immortal lights scattered. A figure staggered out, covered in blood, and his aura became very weak. Even the desolate tower hanging above his head showed tiny cracks.

Is Wuji Tianzun seriously injured?

(End of this chapter)