Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 836 The Third World

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, another 23,000 years have passed. During this time, although the Emperor has hardly appeared in the human universe, his aura has always been overwhelming, making all cultivators feel the suppression brought by this powerful aura.

At this moment, the vast and subtle Great Dao high above the heavens began to tremble and struggle to maintain its stability. Clearly, this change indicated that the current emperor had finally reached the end of this life, and his lifespan had actually increased significantly compared to his previous life. This undoubtedly proved that this invincible emperor still had considerable potential to continue to improve.

As a result, cultivators in the human universe couldn't help but wonder whether the emperor would live out his third life or ascend to immortality.

At this moment, in the Kunlun Sacred Realm, the Emperor finished his cultivation and felt that he had reached the end of this life. He was quite satisfied and felt even stronger gratitude towards his master, Yuanshi Tianzun.

With the help of the special Jianmu fruit, which was specially cultivated by the Primordial Celestial Venerable, the Emperor gained a significant improvement. Of course, the improvement in lifespan and cultivation level is difficult to verify in front of the Emperor, who now has almost no rivals, but the increase in lifespan is definitely the most significant.

The first emperor lived for a total of 21,000 years, which is an extremely long lifespan. In this era and even in the mythical era of the past, very few emperors could reach this lifespan in any one lifetime, let alone the first emperor.

In his second life, the emperor was reborn through the elixir of immortality, and theoretically should not have experienced any improvement. However, he still lived for 23,000 years before reaching old age because of the Kunlun Sacred Realm's laws and origin contained within it.

This lifespan is roughly equivalent to that of the Primordial Saint Emperor, who lived a second life by relying on the seven-colored gourd condensed by the Primordial Emperor. His advancement was also two thousand years.

This was certainly no coincidence. The gourd that Emperor Yuan created was the culmination of his best efforts, so his hope was to prolong his life as much as possible. However, he was unaware that he had already essentially pushed its medicinal properties to their limit.

Yuanshi Tianzun had already sensed this limit when the Jianmu tree produced this special fruit, and thus controlled it to this extent perfectly.

In fact, if the Primordial Saint Emperor relied on the Primordial Immortal Scripture to absorb the essence of the Primordial Ancient Mine to prolong his life, and the Emperor relied on the Kunlun Immortal Scripture to absorb the essence of the Kunlun Sacred Realm to prolong his life, then they would only be able to extend their lifespan by about two thousand years. However, that would cause them to consume their affinity with this wondrous place, making it difficult for them to gain further improvement from it.

However, Yuanhuang and Yuanshi Tianzun can circumvent this by using the elixir of immortality to carry the original power and laws of the two wondrous lands, thus extending their lifespan and further enhancing their connection with these two wondrous lands.

Immediately after consuming the fruit of the Jianmu tree, the Emperor had already sensed a significant increase in his lifespan, and now this was truly confirmed. This deepened his gratitude towards his master, Yuanshi Tianzun.

However, what follows is a new crucial period on his path of cultivation. After all, he is about to rely on the divine embryo formed from the immortal essence he has cultivated over this period to achieve a true transformation and live out his third life.

In his cultivation over the past two lifetimes, the emperor successfully referenced and integrated the experiences of his predecessors, thus discovering a method suitable for him to condense immortal essence for longevity. He successfully accumulated enough immortal essence to condense a divine embryo, giving him the possibility of living another life.

Even though his preparations were very thorough, and he had the previous small transformation as a rehearsal, it would still be quite difficult to successfully achieve this transformation. Therefore, the emperor still had to take it seriously.

After all, the Celestial Venerable of Primordial Beginning had already taken very good care of him. If he were to rely on his master to save the day, the emperor himself would feel embarrassed.

He adjusted his breathing and began to continuously catalyze the immortal essence accumulated within his body, making it more active and revealing a powerful force of rebirth. During this process, the emperor's old body rapidly aged and decayed, nearing death.

However, very quickly, the immortal essence within the emperor's body surged with powerful vitality, allowing the emperor to complete his transformation, regain his youth, and live out his third life. At the moment of the emperor's success, cultivators throughout the mortal universe felt that the emperor's previously crumbling Dao aura instantly returned to its peak, and even the terrifying suppression became more pronounced, almost perceptible to many cultivators with lower cultivation levels.

In just a moment, this immense aura, which was almost solidified and covered the sky, almost disappeared, and was no longer noticeable to anyone except the cultivators who were close to attaining enlightenment.

This change immediately made these cultivators realize that the Emperor had successfully lived a third life and achieved even greater results. Clearly, the Emperor's legend was not over and could continue.

Within the Kunlun Sacred Realm, a monstrous aura of heavenly blood surged into the sky, as if an ancient god had been resurrected, capable of reaching the heavens and the earth, causing the sacred mountain to tremble slightly.

At the same time, the emperor resonated strongly with the Kunlun Sacred Realm, which further connected his mind with the origin of the Kunlun Sacred Realm, allowing him to more clearly perceive the mysteries that this immortal mountain was constantly generating.

This gave the emperor a deeper understanding of the laws within the Kunlun Sacred Realm, and his aura almost became one with the sacred mountain.

After this round of in-depth contemplation, the emperor sensed that he might not need a lifetime of accumulation to reach a point where he could transform himself with the help of the Kunlun Sacred Realm.

In other words, he may very well have mastered the method of transformation using the Kunlun Immortal Scripture before this life has even ended.

However, this was exactly what the emperor wanted, and it was definitely a great thing for him.

First, if the research on the method of transformation can be completed ahead of schedule, the emperor will have some spare time to conduct in-depth research on the next step of cultivation, namely the elixir of immortality in human form, thus ensuring the success of this more difficult method.

After all, this level of difficulty was something that Yuanshi Tianzun had mentioned to him before, and it was definitely not something that could be achieved casually.

Secondly, it was because the emperor still had enough time to further improve the Kunlun Immortal Scripture, making it more suitable for himself.

Yuanshi Tianzun also went through the path of physical evolution, and the emperors who inherited his legacy were naturally no strangers to this method.

The so-called evolution of constitution is essentially about transforming one's own life origin through one's own Dao fruit, thereby evolving into a completely new form and using this to achieve reverse life.

Relying on the Kunlun Immortal Scripture to draw upon the primordial power and laws of the Kunlun Sacred Realm to transform oneself is essentially the same as using these special laws to modify one's own physique, thereby achieving rebirth, only with a lower level of difficulty.

Therefore, if one can combine the path of physical evolution with the method of transforming oneself using the Kunlun Immortal Scripture, it is entirely possible to further enhance this method and achieve greater success.

Most importantly, this process might allow him to comprehend the essence of physique ahead of time, thus paving the way for understanding the laws of the humanoid immortality elixir.

(End of this chapter)