Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 760 The Sixth Earth Immortal

The ownership of the Primordial Ancient Mine is actually unclear. The five supreme beings who sealed this place have all been sent to strange worlds, and when they chose to reincarnate and cultivate again, they completely relinquished their ownership of this place.

Besides them, the Wuji Heavenly Venerable was also among those who controlled this place, but he clearly didn't care who owned this wondrous land. After that, the Primordial Ancient Mine remained under the control of the Undying Heavenly Emperor.

But this place is, after all, the place where the beginning was born, and he is the rightful owner, the most senior native inhabitant in theory. Therefore, the Immortal Emperor has never regarded this place as his own, but naturally believes that it belongs to the beginning.

However, in the period before Taichu left, he also relinquished ownership of this place and entrusted it to the Immortal Emperor.

So, if we have to say something, the Primordial Ancient Mine does indeed belong to the Undying Emperor, which is why the Yuan Emperor specifically came to him to seek his opinion.

The Immortal Emperor supported the Emperor's choice. This connection strengthened his bond with the Emperor, and he might play a significant role in the future.

Even if it's useless, this matter won't affect the Undying Emperor at all. After all, even if the Yuan Emperor becomes an Earth Immortal, his transformation here won't be affected. In fact, he'll have one more person to take care of him, so he's naturally happy to see it happen.

Finally, the Undying Emperor said, "Fellow Daoist Yuanhuang, this place nurtured my junior brother. If you cultivate to become an Earth Immortal here, don't forget to take care of him."

The Emperor said, "That is certainly the case."

Having confirmed this, the Undying Emperor fell into slumber once more, while the Primordial Emperor began to further refine his laws and Dao fruits, and to further comprehend the Primordial Immortal Scripture in order to deduce the path to becoming an Earth Immortal.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, another 20,000 years have passed. The fourth generation of Emperor Yuan has finally come to an end.

Including the 20,000 years he had lived before, the fact that the Yuan Emperor could live for 40,000 years in his fourth life was indeed extraordinary.

Even if part of this lifespan was due to the primordial ancient mine delaying aging to some extent, it is enough to show that the divine embryo he previously created using the semi-finished Longevity Immortal Essence and the parasitic gourd immortal vine was indeed a remarkable achievement.

This is also why the Immortal Emperor and the God Emperor were somewhat curious about his method of transformation.

Through 20,000 years of deduction and practice, Emperor Yuan gained a deeper understanding of the Earth Immortal Method taught by the Sun Saint Emperor.

During this time, he also visited four Earth Immortals: the Celestial Venerable of Longevity, the Underworld Emperor, the Black Tortoise Emperor, and the White Tiger Emperor, from whom he gained many insights into the methods of Earth Immortals.

After all, the four of them were very much looking forward to the emergence of new Earth Immortals in the mortal universe. Moreover, if the Sun Emperor and the Primordial Emperor could truly explore new directions in the methods of Earth Immortals, it could greatly inspire them.

In exploring a path of cultivation, if there isn't a genius with terrifyingly high talent to solve the key problems, then multiple geniuses, whose talents are not so terrifying but are still quite high, are needed to explore on their own, exchange their results, and leverage the collective strength to greatly improve efficiency.

Through the experience of these five Earth Immortals and their respective successful explorations of this method, Emperor Yuan finally comprehended his own Earth Immortal Method.

Unlike the Sun Saint Emperor, even after this transformation, his Dao Fruit and Law still couldn't perfectly reach the Sun Saint Emperor's level of absolute dominance and condensation of the Earth Immortal True Body. After all, the Sun Saint Emperor's several transformations and lifetimes of cultivation were all completed by constantly deducing his own Dao Law as the core, while the Primordial Emperor's transformation relied on either the Primordial Immortal Scripture or the Gourd Immortal Vine, neither of which was based on the absolute core of his personal Dao and Law evolution.

Therefore, he turned his attention to the gourd vine.

The Emperor's act of using the gourd vine to condense his divine embryo created an extremely high affinity between him and the gourd vine, allowing him to directly influence and manipulate it. His natal magic weapons, the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and the God-Destroying Gourd, also developed a profound connection with the gourd vine during his transformation.

In this situation, if he cannot guarantee that his own Dao and Dharma can be absolutely dominant, then perhaps he can do so by borrowing the power of this divine medicine.

After this period, the method of becoming an Earth Immortal, deduced by the Yuan Emperor, was to use the gourd vine as his anchor point, and to use the extraordinary divinity of this divine herb to fight against and balance the Primordial Ancient Mine, thereby creating conditions for his Dao and methods to become the dominant force in the true form of an Earth Immortal.

Even if a divine herb contains fragments of special immortal laws, it is still difficult to contend with a wondrous place like the Primordial Ancient Mine, which is vast in scale and has formed a complete set of special laws. However, the Yuan Emperor himself can take sides by combining his Dao Fruit and natal magic weapon with the immortal vine, thereby suppressing the laws of the Primordial Ancient Mine.

In this context, it became possible for Yuanhuang to become a special earth immortal like the Sun Saint Emperor.

Of course, the result of doing this is that the gourd vine will also merge into the Primordial Ancient Mine along with him, and the man, the vine, and the land will be connected together and inseparable.

After adjusting his own condition, Yuanhuang began his experiment. He first connected his two gourds to the immortal vine, greatly strengthening the connection between himself and the vine. Then he began to use the Primordial Immortal Scripture to cultivate the methods of the Earth Immortal, transforming his body into a stone embryo, synchronizing with the pulse of the Primordial Ancient Mine, and finally merging into it.

Soon, his body began to petrify, becoming one with the Primordial Ancient Mine. However, this stone body was different from ordinary stone bodies; it was entirely composed of Primordial Life Stones. This was clearly because Primordial Life Stones were a specialty of the Primordial Ancient Mine.

During the process of Yuanhuang transforming into an Earth Immortal, the gourd vine began to engage in a tug-of-war with the Primordial Ancient Mine with his help, maintaining a balance between them and ensuring that Yuanhuang's own laws could still dominate.

Subsequently, he began to further improve himself under this state, and successfully embarked on the special path of the Earth Immortal, like the Sun Saint Emperor.

Thus, the sixth Earth Immortal in the human universe was born.

Originally, there were nine wondrous places in the human universe. Later, Kunlun Immortal Mountain split into three, so now there are a total of eleven wondrous places.

The Immortal Mausoleum has the Celestial Venerable of Longevity, the Underworld has the Underworld Emperor, Jade Flower Divine Island has the Black Tortoise Emperor, Kunlun Immortal Mountain has the White Tiger Emperor, Mount Tai has the Sun Saint Emperor, and now the Primordial Ancient Mine has the Primordial Emperor. Six of the eleven wondrous places already possess Earth Immortals.

The other five mountains that do not yet have Earth Immortals are Wuji Immortal Mountain, Daluo Immortal Mountain, Kunlun Sacred Realm, Kunlun Divine Domain, and Sumeru Mountain.

Since the Daoist Wuji wants to explore the methods of becoming an Earth Immortal, Wuji Immortal Mountain naturally cannot be left to anyone else. Therefore, there are only four spots left for Earth Immortals in the mortal universe, and there won't be many more who follow this path.

(End of this chapter)