Shrouding the Heavens: Simultaneous Transmigration, Heavenly Emperor's Stern Father

The path of spiritual practice is a cycle of reincarnation at every step.

From the Sea of ​​Wheels to the Dao Palace, from the Dao Palace to the Four Extremes, from the Four Extremes to the Dragon Transformation, from the Dragon Transformation to the Immortal Platform, from the Immortal Platform to the Emperor Realm—this is the cycle of the human body.

From the mortal body to the sacred body, from the sacred body to the Great Accomplishment, from the Great Accomplishment to the Great Emperor, from the Great Emperor to the Heavenly Emperor, this is the cycle of life levels.

From mortal to cultivator, from cultivator to saint, from saint to quasi-emperor, from quasi-emperor to great emperor, from great emperor to immortal in the mortal world—this is the cycle of transcendence.

Reincarnation is not only a Buddhist concept, but also the most fundamental law of all realms.

Heaven and earth are divided into yin and yang, yin and yang give rise to the five elements, the five elements give birth to all things, and all things go from birth to death and from death to birth.

In the six realms, sentient beings transmigrate according to their karma.

Gods, Asuras, mortals, animals, hungry ghosts, hell beings—their identities change with each life, and their physical forms decay with each life. Only karma and cause remain indestructible, following them like a shadow.

All six realms are imperfect; gods experience the five signs of decay; mortals experience birth, old age, sickness, and death; hungry ghosts are perpetually hungry and thirsty; hell beings suffer eternal torment; Asuras are perpetually angry; and animals are perpetually foolish.

The only way to achieve perfection is to escape the cycle of reincarnation... and transcend to become an immortal.

Ye Chen sighed softly. This principle is simple to explain, but throughout history, countless brilliant talents have been trapped at this point.

Ruthless one waits for his brother's return life after life, Wushi ventures into the unknown, and the Emperor attempts to refine the entire universe to achieve his own enlightenment...

They all share the same goal... to escape the cycle of reincarnation and defy the heavens to become immortals.

But how many of them actually succeed?

"We need a divine rune form that can accommodate this complex structure while maintaining its fluidity."

Ye Chen sat cross-legged in the cave, his spiritual light surging within his divine sea.

Polygonal combinations? Too rigid.

Multi-layered concentric circles? Too monotonous.

Countless possibilities were conceived in my mind and then rejected.

Suddenly, a thought flashed through my mind like lightning...∞!

A symbol representing infinity!

The Möbius strip is composed of six arc components, each arc corresponding to a ring, interlocking with each other in a Tai Chi curve.

A small hole is left at the center of the ring; it is the passage to transcendence, the only exit from the six realms.

That's the shape.

Ye Chen sank into his divine sea, his fingertips gently tracing patterns in the void, and countless divine runes flowed from his fingertips.

Each stroke embodies his understanding of reincarnation, his insights into the six realms of existence, and his yearning for transcendence.

Divine runes coalesced, gradually outlining an extremely intricate pattern.

Six arcs, eighty-one auxiliary lines, and three hundred and sixty divine patterns... This is the main framework of the six-dimensional structure.

The central circular hole is surrounded by twenty-four divine patterns, symbolizing the twenty-four tribulations of the heavens. Only by surviving all the tribulations of the heavens can one transcend them.

In order for the six paths to be independent yet integrated, a force that runs through the whole is needed, which is both gentle and resilient, just within the limits that the Wheel Sea Realm can control.

He silently chanted "Infinite Heavenly Venerable" in his heart, integrating the essence of Buddhism and Taoism into one... Buddhism is Taoism, and the Great Tao has the same origin.

A full twelve hours.

From dawn to dusk, from moonrise to starset.

Ye Chen remained seated cross-legged, with only the divine patterns on his fingertips weaving that invisible mark.

As he cast the last divine rune, a bright light suddenly shone within his divine sea, and the phantom of an ancient scroll appeared...

The six pages of the book correspond to the six paths.

Each page is a world unto itself, and each page has its own set of rules.

The six pages together form the Book of Reincarnation.

The classic image of the Six Paths of Reincarnation flashed through Ye Chen's mind...

The six regions interlock with each other at the axis, and are connected to the other five paths through the axis that runs through heaven and earth.

When one's heavenly blessings are exhausted, one may fall into the human realm or even hell; when one's evil deeds in hell are exhausted, one may be reborn in the heavenly realm.

This is the mystery of reincarnation.

The six-page book must rotate, slowly rotating around that "axis" that connects the past and present, with all beings in the six realms rising, sinking, flowing, and reincarnating in the rotation.

He continued swiping his fingers.

On the first page, the Heavenly Dao... The purest and brightest divine patterns outline the Nine Heavens Immortal Palace, the Goddess Goddess and Beasts, but the edges conceal signs of the Five Decays.

Even celestial beings cannot escape the cycle of rebirth if their clothes are soiled, their armpits are sweaty, their skin is withered, they have body odor, and they are unhappy in their seat.

Page Two, Humanity... the most complex and subtle, where the lights of countless homes and the people separated in a chaotic world coexist, and joys and sorrows, loves and hates are all contained within.

The human realm is the one from which one can most likely transcend.

Page three, the Asura realm... the sharp energy of metal clashing, endless rage and slaughter.

Page four, the animal realm... lowly and heavy, the strong preying on the weak, foolish and ignorant, born in dust and buried in dust.

Page 5, the realm of hungry ghosts... twisted and withered, with needle-like throats and bulging bellies, never to be satiated.

Page 6, Hell's Path... Pitch black and gloomy, mountains of knives, seas of fire, cauldrons of boiling oil, ice caves, endless tortures.

Six pages, six styles, six forces.

But they are not isolated from each other.

Ye Chen arranged connecting divine runes along the edges of each page...

Heaven and hell are two extremes, humanity and animals reflect each other, and Asuras and hungry ghosts both crave something.

The six sets of interconnected divine runes link together, allowing the Heavenly Path to connect with Hell, and the Human Path to connect with the Animal Path. All beings endlessly transmigrate between these six pages.

Ultimately, he once again used "Infinite Heavenly Venerable" as a guide to integrate the essence of Buddhism and Taoism into the core of the Book of Reincarnation.

As he cast the final divine rune, a great light shone upon the Sea of ​​Bitterness.

The six-page book slowly rotates along its spine, revealing celestial light, human life, the carnage of demons, the ignorance of animals, the hunger and thirst of hungry ghosts, and the wails of hell.

The vessel was complete, suspended above the Sea of ​​Bitterness.

Ye Chen slowly opened his eyes and looked inside the ancient book.

The six pages are arranged in a continuous rotation, like a miniature version of the six realms of reincarnation.

He suddenly remembered a saying he had read in his previous life: Heaven's way is to bear burdens, and cause and effect are infallible.

The cycle of rebirth in the six realms is the most direct manifestation of this cause-and-effect relationship.

"This is my instrument..."

Ye Chen looked inward into the sea of ​​wheels, above the sea of ​​suffering, where books hung high, seemingly omnipresent, perched in the heavens, slowly turning their pages.

As the pages open and close, six scenes unfold in succession:

Above the cover, there are nine heavens, where gods and immortals appear and disappear.

Beneath the cover, the torments of the Nine Netherworlds are revealed, with evil gods and demons wailing in agony.

Turning to the first page, one sees the mortal world of humanity, with countless lights flickering in and out of homes.

Turning to the second page, one finds a land of beasts, a place where the strong prey on the weak.

Turn the page again, and you'll see the demon race, who, though they eat raw meat and drink blood, also possess intelligence.

Another page, a lament of demons, where anger, madness, and delusion lead to eternal damnation.

All living beings and all the myriad realms seem to be contained within this small space.

He suddenly understood.

This is what the Book of Reincarnation should look like.

Ye Chen opened his eyes, and the outline of the book was reflected deep in his pupils.

"This is the Book of Reincarnation."

Using himself from all the heavens and myriad worlds as material, the Nine Heavens and Nine Netherworlds as a furnace, and transcendence as a vision, he forged a weapon that had never appeared in the Shrouding the Heavens universe before.

It doesn't belong to anyone else; it belongs only to itself.

Ye Chen stood up and put the embryo of the Book of Reincarnation into the depths of the Sea of ​​Bitterness, letting it absorb divine power and nurture it on its own.

But then he suddenly laughed.

"The cycle of rebirth in the six realms is merely a Buddhist principle."

"How can the myriad realms and endless time and space be encompassed by the single word 'six'? The Book of Reincarnation shouldn't have only six pages; it should have countless pages..."

Each page is a world.

Each page represents a chapter of life.

Each page is a scripture.

Ye Chen closed his eyes, and countless images flashed through his mind.

What will his Book of Reincarnation look like someday in the future, when he is powerful enough and has traveled through enough worlds?