Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 920 Entrustment
After completing his transformation, Zhang Bairen's aura of the Great Dao surged forth, causing the myriad Daos of the human universe to roar once more, surrounding his aura at the center and making it appear even more powerful.

Even the Great Luo Immortal Mountain began to tremble continuously because of this aura, seemingly in complete synchronization with the surge of Zhang Bairen's Great Dao aura, almost as if man and mountain were one.

From this aura, these cultivators all sensed that the current Jade Emperor Zhang Bairen had indeed successfully lived out his third life, and his era was not yet over.

Therefore, the tense atmosphere that had been building up in the human world and the universe vanished once again.

With a sage in power, no force or race dares to wage war during his reign. Therefore, even though they have accumulated many conflicts due to the great development of the universe, they can only suppress them and resolve them in a more peaceful way.

Of course, Zhang Bairen was not an ostentatious person. After successfully living out his third life and stabilizing his aura, he completely calmed his turbulent Dao aura, no longer showing his power and oppression, but hiding in the high sky, appearing and disappearing.

Zhang Bairen did not continue his seclusion. Instead, he came to Dao Huang and bowed to him, saying, "Thank you, Uncle Dao Huang, for your help, which has made my transformation more complete."

When Zhang Bairen was undergoing his transformation, he sensed that the activities of this Great Luo Immortal Mountain were quite abnormal. It seemed to be disregarding the cost and revealing its most essential source power and laws, pouring them into Zhang Bairen's body to make his transformation even more perfect. This was clearly not a normal situation.

For Zhang Bairen, who had cultivated the Great Luo Immortal Scripture and could use it to mobilize the power of this wondrous place, he could naturally tell that such fluctuations were not generated naturally, but rather that someone had deliberately mobilized the power of the immortal mountain.

In today's human universe, if we disregard the power of the field and those who are too high in realm, there are only two who can perfectly accomplish this: the Dao Emperor and the Moral Celestial Venerable.

However, the Celestial Venerable of Morality was still in seclusion at this time, so the person who did this could only be the Dao Emperor.

That's why Zhang Bairen came to express his gratitude after finishing his training.

After all, this transformation was a great help to him. If he had completed the whole process on his own, he probably would have lost at least a third of the improvement.

Although he might be able to complete this part by further strengthening his connection with the Great Luo Immortal Mountain, it would take more time.

For those who have attained enlightenment in the human universe, time is life, and it represents even more possibilities.

The Emperor said, "It was nothing, you don't need to worry about it."

The reason why the Dao Emperor did this was naturally because he thought highly of Zhang Bairen, and Zhang Bairen had also inherited his research on the Chaotic Ancient Method. Therefore, this junior disciple could be considered as half of his successor.

Zhang Bairen said, "It might be true for my uncle, but it's a great help to me."

In his heart, this senior uncle's status gradually rose, almost becoming comparable to his own master, the Moral Celestial Venerable. He secretly resolved that in the future, he would definitely regard this Dao Emperor as his closest elder in order to repay him.

The Emperor said, "It's good that you have this intention."

Zhang Bairen hesitated for a moment, then said, "Uncle Daohuang, may I ask who those two people, one human and one ox, that you sealed in the Great Luo Immortal Mountain are?"

After completing his transformation, Zhang Bairen's affinity for the Great Luo Immortal Mountain increased dramatically. Therefore, it was difficult for him to miss anything hidden within the mountain, including his disciple Li Guo, who had been sealed away by the Dao Emperor, and his mount, the Green Ox. Although Zhang Bairen could tell from their auras that it was the Dao Emperor who had sealed them away, and shouldn't have inquired, he wanted to repay his uncle, so he deliberately asked.

When Zhang Bairen asked this question, the Dao Emperor realized that his disciple Li Guo and his mount, the Green Ox, were still sealed away.

Originally, the Dao Emperor had hoped that Zhang Bairen could take the man and the ox to the Strange World so that he could take care of them. But now that the Strange World no longer exists, this matter is naturally out of the question.

Therefore, the Emperor temporarily put aside the matter of how to arrange things between the two of them.

However, since Zhang Bairen asked, Dao Huang did not hide anything: "These are my disciples and mounts. Originally, I hoped that after you were born, you could take them to ascend to a strange world and take care of them, but now the situation is different."

Zhang Bairen said, "I see. Uncle-Master, we can all sense a strange place in the human universe that seems to contain longevity substances and is used to replace the strange world. Although we don't know what that place is, we guess it should be related to those predecessors who became Immortal Kings."

“Uncle-Master, if one day I find it difficult to continue my transformation and have to go to that strange place, I will definitely take them with me, and we will advance and retreat together.”

After the strange world disappeared, Liang Yu temporarily connected the existence of Wuji Immortal Mountain with the Great Dao of the human universe, allowing all those who had attained the Dao and those who had achieved Dao in other ways to perceive the existence of this world and come to prolong their lives.

Therefore, both Dao Huang and Zhang Bairen could sense the existence of a world containing substances that promote longevity. To repay Dao Huang, Zhang Bairen naturally took on the responsibility of caring for the man and the ox.

The Dao Emperor said, "Now that you have established a very close connection with the Great Luo Immortal Mountain, don't you want to use this as a foundation to become an Earth Immortal? The current methods for becoming an Earth Immortal have unlimited potential, which is incomparable to those of the past."

Zhang Bairen said, "I have been sealed off since the chaotic ancient era in order to become an immortal and venture into a larger world. I am afraid I cannot endure the long growth cycle that the Earth Immortal method requires to stay in the mortal world."

"Moreover, my Dao and methods are incompatible with those of the Earth Immortals, so this path is not for me."

The Dao Emperor sighed, "Yes, you are not suited for the Earth Immortal path. However, your ability to remain steadfast in the face of the temptation of becoming an Immortal King is a testament to your unwavering Dao heart."

"Although I don't know which of the two of us will be unable to continue the transformation before we go, I entrust them to you."

The Dao Emperor has now lived his sixth life, and the difficulty of becoming a Mortal Immortal is too high; he has no confidence whatsoever. If he still has no hope of becoming a Mortal Immortal after completing this transformation, then he will have no choice but to go to the Boundless Immortal Mountain or the Immortal Realm.

Therefore, it was indeed difficult to say whether he or Zhang Bairen would succumb first. Even so, the Dao Emperor still chose to entrust his disciple and mount to Zhang Bairen.

Zhang Bairen said, "Uncle-Master, rest assured, when that time comes, I will do my best to take care of my two junior brothers."

Although Li Guo and Qing Niu attained enlightenment earlier than Zhang Bairen, Zhang Bairen was much older than them in both the time he entered the tutelage of the Celestial Venerable of Morality and the time he emerged from the world. Therefore, the title of junior brother was naturally appropriate.

(End of this chapter)