Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 858 Fourth Generation
When the Celestial Venerable of Morality entrusted everything to the Dao Emperor, he specifically checked on Zhang Bairen, the disciple who had been sealed inside the Great Luo Immortal Mountain by the Celestial Venerable of Morality.

After countless years of nurturing and subtle transformation, Zhang Bairen, who was originally just a mortal genius, has become more and more extraordinary in the process, almost like a celestial being, completely unlike his previous ordinary self.

Although he cultivated the Chaotic Ancient Method, the Dao Emperor was still very certain that he would achieve extraordinary success.

Once he is born and attains enlightenment, the Dao Emperor can entrust his mount and disciples to him, allowing the three of them to travel together to the strange world. In this way, he can guarantee their safety.

However, now was clearly not the time, so the Dao Emperor simply finalized the plan and then stopped paying attention to Zhang Bairen, continuing his own cultivation.

Of course, during this cultivation process, the Dao Emperor did not focus all his energy on how to transform, but also devoted a considerable amount of energy to researching the Chaotic Ancient Method.

Firstly, he needed to pave the way for Qingniu and Liguo and guide them in their cultivation on this path; secondly, this was a method he would need to master in the future.

His predecessor was used by the Celestial Venerable of Morality to cultivate the Chaotic Ancient Method. Therefore, if he wants to regenerate his body through transformation and make it completely synchronized with himself, he naturally needs to conduct sufficient research on the Chaotic Ancient Method.

Of course, this is also a good thing for the Dao Emperor. Because his predecessor had cultivated the Chaotic Ancient Technique, his research and cultivation of it this time will be much easier.

If he can master the Chaotic Ancient Technique, he can use it to achieve transformation and breakthrough in a future life, thus making his path to immortality in the mortal world smoother.

The Celestial Venerable of Morality once used the Chaotic Ancient Method to cultivate his second Dao Fruit, and used it to complete his main Dao Fruit, thereby gaining a breakthrough and transformation. He was very clear about this.

Of course, the reason why the Dao Emperor dared to devote himself to studying the Chaotic Ancient Method in this life was because he had already come a long way in his transformation method for the next life and would succeed soon.

Thanks to his predecessor being born in the Great Luo Immortal Mountain, and also inheriting the high degree of compatibility between the Moral Celestial Venerable and the Great Luo Immortal Mountain, the Dao Emperor can also undergo a transformation with the help of the Great Luo Immortal Scripture and the Great Luo Immortal Mountain.

In his previous lives, Dao Huang had already conducted an extremely in-depth study of this scripture, and he could succeed in just one lifetime. Therefore, he could naturally devote his attention to studying other methods.

Not to mention, the Dao Emperor had previously refined the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill, so even if he couldn't transform, he still had a high enough margin for error.

So, in the following period, Dao Huang, along with Qing Niu and Li Guo, began to study the Chaotic Ancient Method.

Because Li Guo only reached the point of no further advancement in his second life, which was achieved through the elixir of immortality, he was already three thousand years old when he was sealed away.

Therefore, after studying the Chaotic Ancient Method for more than seven thousand years, Li Guo's life also came to an end. He could only consume the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill to start his third life, and then continue to seal himself away.

The Green Ox reached this point in its first life, so it cultivated in the Great Luo Immortal Mountain for ten thousand years before its lifespan ended. It relied on the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill to start its third life, and then it was sealed away again.

During this period, the Dao Emperor also tried to have them cultivate the Great Luo Immortal Scripture, using the power of the Great Luo Immortal Mountain's origin to prolong their lives, and even to achieve a transformation on their own.

However, the compatibility with the strange land is something that can only be encountered by chance and it is difficult to find any definite rules. Therefore, Li Guo and Qing Niu did not succeed in using this scripture to prolong their lives, but only gained a very slight enhancement.

Therefore, the Dao Emperor could only seal it away after their second incarnation ended. During the time he cultivated and researched the Chaotic Ancient Technique with them, the Dao Emperor also benefited greatly. Although he did not achieve great success, he had understood many of the key points from the early stages and made his own improvements.

From this perspective, it is indeed very possible that he will use this method to cultivate a second path to enlightenment in the future.

However, having reached this point, the Dao Emperor brought his exploration to a halt and began to continue researching his own method of transformation.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, another fifteen thousand years have passed.

Over the course of fifteen thousand years, the Dao Emperor successfully cultivated the Great Luo Immortal Scripture to the point of perfection, reaching a stage where he could use this scripture to undergo a transformation.

At this time, he was already 25,000 years old. Although he had reached old age, he had not yet reached the end of this life.

Therefore, the Dao Emperor summoned the Bodhi Ancient Tree and began to use his connection with it to delve into the special laws within the tree. This was also one of the directions the Dao Emperor would take in the future.

After all, besides his own Dao and Dharma, his body also contained traces of the laws of the Great Luo Immortal Mountain, the laws of the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and the chaotic ancient laws left by the Moral Celestial Venerable. These were the directions that the Dao Emperor needed to explore and reach the ultimate.

Only after he has perfected all these methods can he initiate a final transformation, using his own Dao and methods as absolute guides, to achieve complete perfection and resolve all traces of the past and existing chaos. This will be the most important step in his cultivation in the realm of humanity.

Time has flown by once again, and in the blink of an eye, another five thousand years have passed.

Over the course of five thousand years, the Dao Emperor compared and comprehended the laws within the Bodhi Tree with the laws derived from the Bodhi Tree in his own origin, thus achieving considerable results.

However, since his lifespan in this life had come to an end, the Dao Emperor had no choice but to end his comprehension and allow himself to live out his fourth life.

Since the beginning of this life of the Dao Emperor, he has lived for 30,000 years. This increase in lifespan was something the Dao Emperor had long anticipated.

After all, he was very clear that the advancements that past Daoists gained after transforming through the method of immortal essence were at least three thousand years and at most five thousand years, which was within the normal range.

The Dao Emperor did not pay much attention to this point, but immediately began to activate the origin of the Great Luo Immortal Mountain to enable himself to start the next life.

Under the continuous transformation and strengthening by the Celestial Venerable of Morality, this Great Luo Immortal Mountain has clearly undergone a significant evolution, resulting in an incredibly abundant source of power and extremely subtle evolution of its internal laws. Therefore, even cultivators at the Dao Emperor level can use this immortal mountain to complete their transformation.

While marveling at the extraordinary nature of this immortal mountain, the Dao Emperor almost achieved a state of oneness with it, allowing his own origin to continuously generate new life force, thus successfully transforming himself.

Ultimately, the Dao Emperor lived out his fourth life. At the moment of his success, he seemed to feel that he and this immortal mountain had become one, inseparable.

(End of this chapter)