Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 761 Nine-Layered Coffin

Within the Divine Silkworm Ridge, the Divine Emperor opened his eyes, ending his cultivation. Over the past twenty thousand years, he had finally transformed the insights he gained from discussing the Dao with the Undying Emperor and the Primordial Emperor into his own accumulation, which became nourishment for nurturing the eleventh transformation of the Divine Silkworm.

At this stage, the God Emperor could already attempt to continue his deductions and embark on his own unique path to immortality in the mortal world. After all, the prototype of the Eleven Transformations had already emerged, and all that remained was to continue deducing and perfecting it.

However, if he were to begin now, the time required would be unimaginably long. His lifespan in this fourth life has not yet come to an end; even at the age of two or three, he is still at his peak. Therefore, he will probably have another twenty or thirty thousand years of lifespan in this life.

The next cultivation goal of the God Emperor is to accumulate as much as possible during this period.

To achieve this, there is only one place to go: the path that the Immortal Emperor once pointed out for him—the Boundless Immortal Mountain.

After all, there are not many people who can further promote the God Emperor's transformation method after communicating with the Undying Emperor. The Great Celestial Venerable in Wuji Immortal Mountain is undoubtedly the one who can help him the most.

The Immortal Emperor once gifted him a wisp of the aura of the Boundless Immortal Mountain, allowing him to use this aura to track the mountain's whereabouts. This was undoubtedly a possibility for him to advance further.

The Divine Emperor rose and looked around the universe. He had been alive for 100,000 years. Perhaps it was time to discard the Heavenly Heart Mark and completely disappear from the world, just like the Undying Emperor, the Primordial Emperor, and others, and devote himself to the next stage of cultivation.

Of course, before leaving, the Divine Emperor made one more transformation of the Divine Silkworm Ridge.

The terrain of Shencan Ridge is composed of nine divine ridges that converge in the center, forming a sacred place for cultivation. This central area is where the Divine Emperor cultivates, and it is also the sacred ground of the Shencan lineage.

Previously, the Divine Emperor had simply modified the nine mountain ranges and set up imperial array patterns. Now, he has gone a step further, using the profound mysteries of his first nine transformations of the Divine Silkworm to stir the dragon veins and earth energy beneath these nine Divine Silkworm Ridges, transforming them into an even more terrifying and world-shaking immortal array that nurtures nine celestial spirit shadows. At its core is a grand array constructed with his ten transformations as its core.

These ten great formations are interconnected and can evolve the profound mysteries of the Ten Transformations of the Divine Silkworm. This level of strength is enough to reassure the God Emperor.

Afterwards, the God Emperor took the initiative to separate the Heavenly Heart Mark from his own Great Dao, allowing it to enter a recovery period of ten thousand years. Then, he activated the battle armor on his body, which had become an incomplete immortal artifact, to suppress his own Great Dao aura, preventing it from affecting other cultivators.

This unexpected turn of events caught all cultivators in the human universe completely off guard.

The God Emperor has been in existence for 100,000 years. Even though he rarely appears in the human universe, his aura of the Great Dao has always been above all the Daos of the universe. Therefore, no one can ignore his existence.

In this situation, the God Emperor has almost become a background figure that all cultivators have become accustomed to.

But now, this supreme, godlike figure has suddenly disappeared, leaving many cultivators bewildered and struggling to adapt.

Could it be that he ascended to heaven?

Based on the fact that the first three incarnations of the God Emperor lasted for 80,000 years, with the third incarnation accounting for 30,000 years, even if the fourth incarnation of the God Emperor did not improve, he was still at his peak. His disappearance should have meant that he left the human universe.

However, the path to immortality in the mortal world has begun to circulate in the human universe. Many people have speculated that some ancient enlightened beings have not left the mortal world, but are constantly undergoing transformation. Therefore, it is possible that the God Emperor simply embarked on the path to immortality in the mortal world.

However, in any case, the God Emperor will no longer affect the cultivation of other cultivators in the human universe.

The long period of peace eventually came to an end, and the thriving era of the God Emperor came to a close, with a new era on the horizon. After stabilizing his own condition, the God Emperor left the Divine Silkworm Ridge and, relying on the aura left behind by the Undying Emperor, began to relentlessly search for the existence of the Boundless Immortal Mountain.

After determining the direction, he headed in the direction he sensed.

During his journey across the starry sky, the God Emperor concealed his presence and did not alert other cultivators.

However, during his journey, he suddenly sensed an unusual aura and stopped.

In the void, a stone coffin drifted aimlessly, exuding an extremely ancient and weathered aura.

The God Emperor took the stone coffin and held it in his palm. Instantly, this mysterious ancient coffin, carved with dragons and phoenixes and depicting the appearances of all living beings, transformed into a small stone box. This stone box was no bigger than the palm of his hand, without any gaps, as if it were just a regular-shaped block of stone.

With the God Emperor's discerning eye, he could naturally tell that this was the legendary Nine-Layered Coffin of the Gods, an ancient coffin design from the mythological era, which even ordinary Dao-proving practitioners rarely had the opportunity to use.

The Divine Emperor opened the stone coffin with great supernatural powers, and immediately a special aura that seemed to transcend life and death rushed out.

He looked into the coffin and saw what appeared to be a Taoist lying inside, but in an instant, the phantom vanished completely, leaving only some insights into the method of transformation, which were obtained by the Divine Emperor.

Clearly, this was once used by a cultivator who embarked on the path of immortality in the mortal world. He underwent a transformation within it, leaving behind some unique aura and his own insights. Even back then, his achievements far surpassed those of the current God Emperor.

The source of this nine-layered coffin is none other than Lingbao Tianzun.

Long ago, the Celestial Venerable Lingbao underwent a transformation through the Reincarnation Seal, rising from death to life. Therefore, he specially used this coffin to bury and nurture himself. After his success, he cast this nine-layered coffin into the void as an opportunity left for future generations.

Now, this opportunity has fallen into the hands of the God Emperor, which is indeed making the best use of it.

After all, in this human universe, there are very few beings who can digest and absorb all these experiences and transform them into their own nourishment to grow. The God Emperor is undoubtedly the most suitable one.

From the aura emanating from the nine-layered coffin, the Divine Emperor roughly deduced the identity of Lingbao Tianzun and the era in which he lived.

If the Celestial Venerable Lingbao was already so powerful in the past, what about hundreds of thousands of years later? Without a doubt, he is the predecessor of the Divine Emperor on the path to immortality in the mortal world.

Subsequently, the Divine Emperor organized the information left behind by the Celestial Venerable Lingbao, further perfecting his own method of transformation.

In the original timeline, the God Emperor obtained a nine-layered coffin and buried himself within it, beginning his transformation in a state between life and death, progressing towards the eleventh transformation of the Divine Silkworm. This process lasted for over two million years before finally succeeding at an unknown point in time.

He has now obtained a nine-layered coffin, which may be considered a kind of world line convergence.

(End of this chapter)