Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 726 Taiyin Metamorphosis
After leaving the Primordial Ancient Mine, Emperor Yuan was brimming with ambition. Compared to many emperors of the past, he already had a clear advantage. Not only was his future path clearly visible, but he also had the Primordial Immortal Scripture as a safety net, and even the option of becoming an Earth Immortal as a fallback.

Therefore, Emperor Yuan was naturally full of confidence and hope for the future.

However, Emperor Yuan could not relinquish worldly affairs, so he could not devote himself fully to cultivation at the moment and needed to stabilize his race first.

So, Emperor Yuan returned to the Big Dipper and came to his hometown.

Although his clan has grown stronger under the protection of the Undying Dynasty, it is no longer in the same precarious state as before. It has become a force that is not weak in the universe and can be called a royal family in the Big Dipper.

Therefore, even after the dissolution of the Undying Dynasty, their lineage was able to continue to be passed down to this day.

But all of this changed after the birth of Yuanhuang. For their race, which wasn't particularly powerful, to produce such a supreme genius as Yuanhuang was undoubtedly a great stroke of luck. Therefore, Yuanhuang grew up under the high expectations of his people.

After all, their only chance to rise again lies in this peerless genius, comparable to a young ancient emperor, continuing to grow and ultimately leading them to break through their limits, achieving a leap in their racial bloodline and strength. In fact, many races in the previous human universe had also risen to royalty in this way.

Under these circumstances, Emperor Yuan himself naturally had deep feelings for his clansmen, and the imperial family had always been one of his targets.

Now that he has become a true emperor, it is time to achieve this goal.

After returning, the Yuan Emperor used his great supernatural powers to seize a special location on the Big Dipper and connect it with the land where his people lived, forming a sacred place for cultivation, which became the holy land of his clan.

From then on, their clan took the name of this sacred place personally created by Emperor Yuan, and the Primordial Lake lineage was officially born. Emperor Yuan, the emperor at that time, became the origin of the Primordial Lake royal family.

Then, the Yuan Emperor left his own imperial array patterns on this terrain and passed down his complete ancient scriptures, so that his people could use them to continuously develop their bloodline and become stronger.

As for the issue of the legendary imperial weapon, Emperor Yuan was still thinking about collecting the seven gourds that the Seven-Colored Gourd Immortal Vine produced after the seven gourds of the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, and imitating the refining method of the Immortal-Slaying Gourd to make his own gourd even more powerful. In this way, his gourd would naturally have to continue to evolve with him and could not remain in the Primordial Lake.

However, refining a new Supreme Imperial Weapon is obviously not so easy, at least not something he can easily succeed at now, so Emperor Yuan had no choice but to put the problem aside for the time being.

Of course, in order to make the refining easier in the future, the Emperor Yuan found enough Feathered Azure Gold to cast it into a gourd-shaped artifact, and continuously nurtured it with his own essence, in order to refine it into a second Supreme Emperor Weapon in the future and leave it in the Primordial Lake to be passed down to future generations.

He then left his bloodline in the primeval lake, giving birth to as many princes as possible.

After all, to some extent, being a prince is a kind of foundation, and one of the most crucial ones.

Even princes who aren't particularly talented and can't break through the limitations of their bloodline still have a high probability of becoming quasi-emperors. Such individuals, in most situations, would be enough to ensure the stable succession of a powerful clan.

Afterwards, the Yuan Emperor resided permanently at the Primordial Lake to personally instruct his clansmen and princes in cultivation, rapidly enhancing the overall strength of this lineage and making it even more powerful. If this continued, even excluding the Yuan Emperor, the name of the royal family would become truly deserved through this process.

As the Primordial Lake lineage continued to develop, the Emperor Yuan's cultivation time also increased, allowing him to begin comprehending the Primordial Immortal Scripture and studying the gourd-shaped immortal vine. Thus, time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, two thousand five hundred years had passed.

Having returned to Wuji Immortal Mountain nearly five thousand years ago, the Taiyin Human Emperor no longer sought advice from Liang Yu, but instead focused on his own method of transformation. After all, the path to immortality in the mortal world ultimately depends on one's own continuous rebirth through trials and tribulations; guidance from others can only serve as a supplement, not the primary means.

His transformation was largely influenced by Liang Yu, although it wasn't Liang Yu who directly guided him, but rather because he comprehended the Wuji Immortal Scripture. However, this had already deeply inspired him.

The saying goes, "Those who learn from me will live, those who imitate me will die." If the Taiyin Emperor wants to absorb Liang Yu's experience to forge his own path, then he can no longer let Liang Yu guide his way.

Now, he has finally succeeded before his death, thoroughly deducing his method, and can now continue his path to immortality.

The sixth incarnation of the Taiyin Emperor lived for 75,000 years, which is undoubtedly an extremely long time. And after he begins his transformation, it will take even longer before he can succeed.

The road ahead was long and arduous, and even the Taiyin Emperor couldn't help but feel lost, unsure whether his future would be bright. However, he quickly became resolute.

To become a mortal immortal, one must forge one's own path in an era where immortality is impossible. It is normal not to see the future clearly; one only needs to stay true to oneself and forge ahead.

Immediately afterwards, the Taiyin Human Emperor began to prepare for his transformation.

His transformation method this time was derived from Liang Yu's method of transforming chaos into holy spirits, except that the Taiyin Human Emperor further developed a second stage based on this.

In the first stage, he will transform himself into a mass of primordial chaotic essence, and then re-form into a Holy Spirit. However, the entire process needs to be accelerated by nurturing in a stone embryo.

Within the Boundless Immortal Mountain, because it incorporates the special laws of the Profound Sky Divine Mountain, even if the Taiyin Human Emperor did not master the Origin Technique and the Field Technique, the first stage of the Holy Spirit Transformation would probably be shortened to tens of thousands of years, or even less.

After completing the first stage, he can ensure that he can continue to grow slowly even after leaving Wuji Immortal Mountain, and thus he can undergo the second stage of transformation.

The second stage involves the method of seeing the heavens and earth that the Taiyin Emperor had previously researched. He intends to use his extremely high affinity with everything in the human universe, which he possesses as a Chaos Holy Spirit and in a state of not yet fully formed and born, to comprehend the creation of heaven and earth and perfect his own Dao fruit.

This process requires the Chaos Divine Seal, which has already transformed into a celestial artifact, to protect the Taiyin Human Emperor from being affected, while simultaneously nurturing and cultivating him in various key locations in the human universe, following the routes he had researched during his previous travels around the cosmos, in order to complete his method of seeing the heavens and earth and completely transform himself into the most perfect form of the Chaos Holy Spirit.

After officially beginning his transformation, the Taiyin Emperor continuously circulated the Wuji Immortal Scripture to mobilize the primordial power of this immortal mountain, which gathered on the outside of his body and eventually condensed into a special outer shell woven from Wuji Immortal Light. Although it was made of stone, it had a subtle, warm, and jade-like feel.

Protected by this stone embryo, the body of the Taiyin Human Emperor began to rapidly disintegrate, eventually transforming into a wisp of chaotic energy. Confined within the stone embryo, this chaotic energy began its slow evolution.

(End of this chapter)