Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 95 Re-entering the Underworld
Seeing the Celestial Venerable of Freedom frowning, Liang Yu said, "Fellow Daoist, you don't need to worry too much. This kind of dark power is only scattered here and there in our universe, and may not even exist anymore. I'm just taking precautions."

The carefree Celestial Venerable's brows relaxed, and he said, "In that case, I will definitely keep an eye on it."

Liang Yu said, "It seems you, Fellow Daoist Xiaoyao, are not very interested in the reincarnation method I proposed. Do you have other plans?"

The carefree Celestial Venerable sighed, "I have always believed that life is like a game of chess, and once a move is made, there is no going back. Therefore, I have spent my whole life trying to avoid doing things that I will regret in the future."

"In my life, I only need to regret once. Back then, seeing that no one before me had achieved immortality, I chose to commit suicide."

"Looking back now, I was afraid. I was afraid of dying, afraid that I wouldn't be able to become an immortal. So I gave up my path and turned myself into a living dead, barely clinging to life."

"Wuji, you shattered my self-deceiving dream and told me that there was actually a road ahead, but I gave up on continuing to walk it."

"From the moment I realized these things, I came back to life; I was reborn. This is the first and last time in my life I have ever felt such deep regret."

"Wuji, I will not reincarnate. I want to follow my own path and forge a completely new one. Although I have wasted hundreds of thousands of years, I do not want to deny my life."

The carefree Celestial Venerable departed, so free and resolute.

Liang Yu couldn't help but sigh. That's the downside of those who attain enlightenment; the more outstanding they are, the more individualistic and principled they become. Once they make up their minds, they are unlikely to change their minds.

It seems that the nine Heavenly Venerables of mythology are ultimately not complete. Originally, only the Boundless Heavenly Venerable was missing, but the Thunder Swamp Dao Embryo he left behind embodied his ambition to become an immortal, and the Boundless Dao Stele inherited his complete Dao lineage, so they could still be brought in to make up the numbers.

But the carefree Celestial Venerable is different. If he were to go down a dark path and eventually pass away, he wouldn't even have a successor to represent him.

One can only hope that the carefree Celestial Venerable, who has broken through and rebuilt himself, can truly navigate this broken path. Although Liang Yu is not very optimistic about him.

Liang Yu gathered his thoughts and headed towards the underworld.

Boundless divine light, along with Liang Yu, transformed into a golden road that swept across the universe.

Before long, Liang Yu arrived once again at this black underworld land, which was countless times larger than the sun, moon, and stars.

Fifty thousand years have passed, and this place seems to have remained unchanged, still so eerie and teeming with yin spirits and monsters.

However, the plaque in the center of the underworld trembled upon seeing Liang Yu's arrival. It wanted to break through the void and escape, but ultimately refrained from doing so.

After all, it simply doesn't have the ability to escape.

Liang Yu couldn't help but chuckle. It turned out that this plaque was crafted by Ghost Venerable, one of the fifteen supreme beings he had killed. Now, its owner had been betrayed by Underworld Venerable and Eternal Life Venerable, and he was left standing here at the local government's gate, unable to move an inch when the enemy who killed his master came to his door. It was truly a pitiful situation.

However, the figure standing under the plaque gave him a feeling of being in another world.

Just like fifty thousand years ago, the Underworld Lord, with the Heaven-Reaching Underworld Treasure atop his head, awaited his arrival here. However, this time, his aura was more restrained and profound than before, as if some astonishing Dao Fruit was about to be brewed.

Upon seeing Liang Yu, the Underworld Lord cupped his hands and said, "Great Heavenly Venerable, how have you been?"

Liang Yu laughed and said, "Fellow Daoist Mingzun is being a bit too polite. With your abilities, do you really need to call others 'Great Heavenly Venerable'?"

Judging from the aura of the Underworld Lord, he is not far from completing his transformation. Perhaps the Lake of Reincarnation in future lives was left behind during this transformation. This incarnation of the Underworld Lord is definitely the peak of Duan De's past lives. He not only proved his Dao with a corpse, but also created the Origin Technique, established the Underworld, and became famous. Even though he ultimately lost to the Emperor Lord, he was still one of the most terrifying people in the mythological era.

This can be seen from the fact that the Corpse Emperor who later attained enlightenment was so frightened upon seeing him that he abandoned the Reincarnation Seal and fled.

Judging from his aura, Liang Yu deduced that the Underworld Lord would definitely possess true Heavenly Emperor-level combat power after completing his transformation. However, in his subsequent incarnations, he clearly did not achieve this.

Upon hearing this, the Underworld Lord smiled and said, "In that case, I will still address you as Fellow Daoist Wuji as usual. Please come in, Fellow Daoist."

Liang Yu, together with the Underworld Lord, once again entered the innermost part of the Underworld.

However, this time, the Celestial Venerable of Immortality was already waiting here in advance.

Originally, the Celestial Venerable of Immortality had lost all hope and planned to enter a deep slumber, intending to bury himself on the path to immortality once it opened.

However, in his later years, when Liang Yu used the desolate tower to intimidate the various forbidden zones, he secretly sent him a message, asking him to cooperate with his plan. In his words, he also revealed that he might be able to help him continue the broken path in the future.

Therefore, the Celestial Venerable of Longevity regained a glimmer of hope, so he participated in Liang Yu's scheme, inducing the two Supreme Beings of the Underworld to cooperate with the Supreme Beings of Kunlun Immortal Mountain with the information that Liang Yu had revealed through him, ultimately leading to the emergence of fifteen Supreme Beings.

Even the Celestial Venerable of Immortality was somewhat shocked, fearing that if Liang Yu went too far, he would have no hope left. After all, those were fifteen supreme beings, among whom the strongest, the Blood Phoenix Supreme and the Candle Dragon Supreme, were not even weaker than himself.

However, Liang Yu unleashed his divine power, slaying all fifteen Supreme Beings, leaving even the Eternal Celestial Venerable in awe. Although the Eternal Celestial Venerable already knew that Liang Yu's strength was considerably greater than his own at his peak, he hadn't expected the difference to be so vast.

At the same time, a glimmer of hope took root and sprouted in his heart, growing into a towering tree. Since Wuji was so powerful, then what he said about reconnecting the severed path should also be true.

Therefore, he arrived early and waited in the underworld for Liang Yu to arrive.

The Celestial Venerable of Annihilation and the Emperor of Prison Suppression only emerged from seclusion and headed towards the Underworld after sensing Liang Yu's aura.

The Celestial Venerable of Nirvana didn't seem to care, since he hadn't done anything and had simply gone into slumber. Liang Yu's words that day hadn't given him much thought either. Of course, this was also related to his method of prolonging life by minimizing his own primordial spirit and life activities.

In this low-energy state, his mind and spirit were not functioning very well. Perhaps it was precisely this state that led to him in the original timeline being captured alive by the Emperor without realizing anything and sealed on the path to immortality on Flying Immortal Star.

The Prison Suppressor Emperor, on the other hand, was somewhat relieved. The Ghost Lord and the Yellow Springs Supreme had once tried to recruit him to launch a dark upheaval to replenish their life essence, but he refused because he still had his bottom line and his condition had not deteriorated to the extreme.

But later, as life continued to pass, he inevitably began to have these thoughts, and the fear of death gradually overwhelmed his bottom line.

But just as he was beginning to abandon his principles, Liang Yu attained enlightenment and demonstrated formidable combat power from the very beginning, not to mention that he also obtained the Desolate Tower.

So he had to abandon the idea and continue to endure the hardship.

It was precisely for these reasons that he escaped this calamity. This time, the Underworld Lord clearly no longer turned a blind eye to the chaos in the Underworld, but instead conspired with the Eternal Life Heavenly Lord to cleanse the offending Ghost Lord and Yellow Spring Supreme from their ranks.

If he hadn't held back then, he would have been on this cleanup list.

(End of this chapter)