Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 854 The Fifth Emperor
Living for 25,000 years in his first life is undoubtedly an extremely remarkable lifespan, making him one of the most outstanding Daoists throughout history. Clearly, the Dao Emperor has become one of the pinnacles of this era.

However, this is not surprising. After all, the predecessor of the Dao Emperor was a divine embryo created by the Heavenly Venerable of Morality in order to live out his sixth life. This resulted in the Dao Emperor's physical body being incredibly powerful, and his essence far surpassed that of any other Daoist in his previous life.

Even after reaching this stage, the Dao Emperor's body did not decay; it was his primordial spirit that succumbed first. No matter how powerful the physical body was, once the primordial spirit was destroyed, he would still face death.

In fact, normally speaking, all those who have attained enlightenment in the human universe have this condition: their physical bodies are stronger than their primordial spirits. Excluding the case of transformation into the Dao, even if an ordinary person who has attained enlightenment dies hundreds of thousands of years later, their physical body will not decay.

Because the Dao Emperor's physical body was so powerful, the difference between it and his primordial spirit reached an astonishing level. Even though the Dao Emperor's achievements and his primordial spirit had reached an extremely high level, they still could not be completely synchronized with his physical body.

Of course, the Dao Emperor could also use his own physical body or absorb the primordial power of the Great Luo Immortal Mountain to prolong his life, but life and death are natural laws, and the Dao Emperor did not deliberately violate this law.

Therefore, he chose to take the elixir of immortality at this moment to give himself a new life.

However, it is unknown whether it was because his physical body was too powerful, so the divinity brought by the Bodhi seed was fully integrated into his primordial spirit and life essence, allowing him to start his second life, while his physical body was still not greatly affected.

Although his body was formed from a divine embryo nurtured within the Bodhi Tree, it ultimately only contained the laws of the Bodhi Tree and lacked that special immortal divinity. Therefore, the Bodhi seeds were still useful to him.

Furthermore, due to his relationship with the Bodhi tree, its medicinal properties can be enhanced to the maximum extent.

However, during this transformation, the Dao Emperor discovered his own problem: his physical body was too extraordinary, which made his already extremely powerful primordial spirit seem somewhat ordinary and unable to synchronize perfectly.

Therefore, his future cultivation should focus on improving his Dao, Dharma, and even his primordial spirit as much as possible, so that he can truly synchronize perfectly with this body and reach a completely new level.

Perhaps this was the most crucial qualitative change in his exploration of the path to immortality in the mortal world.

As for the method of transformation in the next life or other methods of prolonging life, the Dao Emperor still has many choices.

The recipe for the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill had long ago been given to the Dao Emperor by the Celestial Venerable of Morality, and refining the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill was not a difficult task for the Dao Emperor. In fact, the Celestial Venerable of Morality had even given him the right to use the Eight Trigrams Furnace, which had become a celestial artifact.

In this situation, using such an elixir to prolong life would indeed be a very simple matter.

Besides this, the Dao Emperor has two other options: the Longevity Immortal Essence and the Great Luo Immortal Scripture.

The method of accumulating immortal essence within one's own body to transform into the next life has become no longer a secret after countless years of exploration by countless Daoists. Almost every step from beginning to end has the optimal solution with the highest success rate.

Although it cannot be universally applied due to the individual's talent, physique, and cultivation methods, the parts that require personal effort to improve are indeed much less.

This means that the threshold for using this method has been lowered considerably. Therefore, for the Dao Emperor, the probability of success with this transformation method is indeed very high. As for the latter, the Great Luo Immortal Scripture, it is a scripture condensed from the special laws of the Great Luo Immortal Mountain. The Moral Celestial Venerable already had a high degree of compatibility with this immortal mountain, and during the process of conceiving the divine embryo through the Bodhi Ancient Tree, he also absorbed some of the primordial power and laws from this immortal mountain through the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

With the two factors combined, the Dao Emperor's compatibility with this sweater was extremely high, even higher than that of the Moral Celestial Venerable himself. Therefore, it was not too difficult for him to undergo a transformation using this immortal mountain.

In this way, the Dao Emperor had ample time to continuously refine his Dao Fruit and truly transform his body through metamorphosis, allowing it to completely erase all traces of the past.

Having clarified his future direction, Dao Huang resumed his cultivation.

In the sacred Kunlun Realm, the Emperor concluded his cultivation.

Since his fourth incarnation, he has been in seclusion in the Kunlun Sacred Realm for 35,000 years, and this is the lifespan of his current life.

Since his master was Yuanshi Tianzun, and Taichu Shenghuang's master was Wuji Tianzun, the emperor knew that he could never compare to the immortal emperor, so he always set his sights on Taichu Shenghuang.

In previous lifetimes, their achievements and lifespans were highly correlated, and this fourth lifetime was no exception. Of course, due to his Holy Spirit body, the Primordial Holy Emperor lived for 36,000 years in his fourth lifetime, which was slightly longer than that of an Emperor, but was basically at a similar level.

Throughout these 35,000 years, the emperor consistently focused his efforts on researching the elixir of immortality in human form, and ultimately achieved remarkable results.

Thanks to his previous life, in which he comprehended the evolution of his physique during the transformation of the Kunlun Bible, he had a higher starting point and foundation. In this life, he was also very adept at researching the humanoid immortality elixir.

Although he did not reach the level of understanding the fundamental nature of his physique like Wuji Tianzun and Yuanshi Tianzun, he still gained a profound understanding of his mortal body through this process, enough to transform himself and become more perfect.

Thus, the emperor, who was essentially exhausted, no longer hesitated and began his transformation.

The primordial laws within the emperor's body continued to evolve, becoming more refined and powerful, yet they remained in the state of a mortal body. They even began to become more pure and unified, and even the Kunlun Sacred Realm laws that he previously possessed were completely eroded in the process.

In the end, the emperor returned to a completely mortal state, but with a greatly enhanced mortal body, and even began to subtly evolve into an immortal body.

At this point, the emperor had completed his transformation and successfully lived out his fifth life.

The emperor felt his mortal body grow stronger and purer, and realized that his cultivation, which had previously reached a bottleneck, was beginning to improve again. Clearly, this transformation had given him greater potential, allowing him to go further before even becoming an immortal.

After this life, the emperor has little room for further improvement. He only needs to continue to evolve in this state and achieve the qualitative change from a mortal body to an immortal body through a long process of quantitative accumulation to achieve final success.

(End of this chapter)