The Eternal Calamity of the Heaven-shading

Chapter 294 All the Venerable Ones Appear

From then on, the Celestial Venerable of Ashes fled to the far reaches of the universe. Although he was not as unlucky as the Celestial Venerable of Seven Kills who perished directly, he seemed to have suffered an incurable Dao injury and never set foot in any important star region again until he passed away five thousand years later.

As for the Ash Bone Clan, the cultivation world still remembered their earlier occupation of the Life Star. When the Ash Bone Celestial Venerable passed away, they couldn't wait to settle old scores and almost wiped them out.

Of course, that's a story for later. The blood that flowed during that time will eventually become a few insignificant lines in ancient books, until one day it will be completely forgotten by people.

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As the Milky Way turns and the mortal world churns, thousands of years of time are shattered into dust amidst the traces of the universe.

As the great eras changed and came to an end, there was no moment of mourning for the tragic life of the Venerable Jinhai. Immediately afterward, another group of brilliant and outstanding individuals took to the stage of history.

In the 558,000-year mythological era, the Five Elements Celestial Venerable attained enlightenment, standing high above the nine heavens, overlooking the vast earth.

His opponent was an ancient person who had once met the carefree Celestial Venerable and had a close relationship with him.

However, the Five Elements Celestial Venerable was too powerful. Golden lightning shattered the sky and broke the universe, fire sea burned the heavens and dried up the three thousand weak waters, wooden vines entangled sacred artifacts from the void, and earthen mountains crushed the flesh and blood of heroes.

The moment these five elements of immortal light appeared, they directly swept up the chaotic sea and reversed the galaxy.

Many beings knelt down upon seeing this, witnessing the Five Elements Celestial Venerable tear apart his enemies and overcome the heavenly tribulation to attain enlightenment.

However, compared to his domineering presence before attaining enlightenment, the Five Elements Celestial Venerable became noticeably more low-key afterward.

Perhaps inspired by the tragic lesson of the Ashes Celestial Venerable, this new supreme powerhouse immediately paid homage to many Celestial Venerable lineages, such as the Cangxuan Sect, the Guijian Sect, the Xiaoyao Dao, and the Lietian Valley.

In the days that followed, all was peaceful.

The Five Elements Celestial Venerable reigned for 36,000 years. During this time, he survived a second life by relying on a Nine Wonders Immortal Elixir fruit that had been scattered from Burial Sky Island. In his later years, he naturally passed away.

Legend has it that this Celestial Venerable did not truly pass away; he spent his entire life searching for Burial Island, but to no avail, and had no choice but to enter the Immortal Tomb.

However, the Five Elements Holy Land, the lineage he left behind, vehemently denied this claim and used the Heavenly Venerable Weapon Five Elements Wheel to suppress several Great Saints who disobeyed warnings.

The effect was remarkable; the curious voices in the world immediately disappeared, and at least openly, no one dared to discuss it recklessly anymore.

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Less than ten thousand years later, the traces of the Five Elements Celestial Venerable's Dao disappeared, and signs of a new Celestial Venerable appeared in the world.

With Lingbao as the starting point, Xiaoyao, Jinhai, and Wuxing were born in succession, and now there are more Daoists to follow. Apart from waiting for the suppression of the Great Dao to disappear, there has been no gap in the process.

This has left people in awe, as if the myriad principles of heaven and earth have truly been reversed.

In the 650,000-year mythological era, the Heavenly Venerable of Heaven and Earth ascended to the pinnacle, looking down upon all living beings.

On the day he attained enlightenment, three thousand chaotic tribulation lightning bolts descended from the Nine Heavens. Qiankun Tianzun rode a bronze chariot and ascended against the heavens, the wheels crushing the void and suppressing all the phantoms of gods and demons.

This is the sixteenth Heavenly Venerable of the Human Body Secret Realm since the beginning of the new era. His combat power is terrifying and seems to be no less than that of the previous Five Elements Heavenly Venerable.

During his reign, he also searched desperately for the shadow of Burial Sky Island, but unfortunately, since the time of the Carefree Celestial Venerable, that mortal realm seemed to have ascended to heaven, and even after searching the entire universe, no trace of it could be found.

Strangely, every now and then, immortality fruits would appear out of nowhere.

People take this for granted, as it has been going on for hundreds of thousands of years and involves different species.

Therefore, even though some enlightened beings do not possess the elixir of immortality, they can still live a second life.

For example, Qiankun Tianzun easily collected five of them, which were respectively the Qilin Immortal Medicine, the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine, the Nine Wonders Immortal Medicine, the Yellow Plum, and the Ginseng Fruit.

Each fruit was meticulously marked with Daoist runes, indicating the harvest date, batch number, and a pattern of nine dragons pulling a coffin. Any normal person could immediately tell that these fruits came from Burial Sky Island.

Qiankun Tianzun attempted to trace back to Zangtian Island through them, but ultimately found nothing and had to end in disappointment.

Actually, it's not that Qiankun Tianzun is incompetent; even if other Tianzun were in his place, they would be helpless.

This was done intentionally by Chen Wu.

It should be known that there are only thirty elixirs of immortality in the world, and each one has undergone the baptism of the changing eras, making them unique.

This number is not large, because some immortal elixirs from the chaotic ancient era have not been preserved.

However, Chen Wu alone possessed ten of them, exactly one-third of the total. (The White Tortoise Carrying Immortal was an exception and is not counted among the thirty plants.)
With so many elixirs of immortality maturing only once every few thousand years, the accumulated amount over hundreds of thousands of years is already quite considerable.

Therefore, Chen Wu chose to keep only a portion of them, and marked the rest, distributing them to the world as an opportunity.

If later generations study it carefully, they will be able to discover its mysteries, find Burial Sky Island, and gain the opportunity to travel to a strange world.

Alternatively, if one is exceptionally talented enough to live a third life in the mortal world through their own efforts, they will also be noticed.

Unfortunately, the Heavenly Venerable of Heaven and Earth was destined not to have this opportunity.

After a lifetime of fruitless searching, he founded the Qiankun Dao Palace in his later years, leaving behind all his legacy, before sadly retreating to the Immortal Mausoleum.

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For the next three hundred thousand years, thirteen auras that suppressed the universe took turns illuminating the heavens.

The seventeenth Celestial Venerable, Yi Xu Celestial Venerable.

Originally an old tree, it absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for a thousand years before taking human form and unexpectedly embarking on a path of vying for supremacy.

In this process, he integrated some of the array formation techniques inherited from Lingbao Tianzun, went through great battles, and created his own methods.

In his final battle before attaining enlightenment, he used the stars of the heavens as chess pieces, setting up a chaotic chessboard that covered tens of thousands of star fields, ruthlessly killing all his competitors, and finally surviving the tribulation of lightning to attain enlightenment.

The eighteenth Celestial Venerable is the most mysterious, referred to only as "Shihen" in historical records, and is suspected to be a successor of the Carefree Celestial Venerable.

On the day of his enlightenment, the river of time was reversed slightly, causing ordinary trees in the mortal world to sprout new buds.

However, the backlash of time and space followed one after another. Countless galaxies collapsed into black holes in the turbulent flow of time, forcing the Celestial Venerable of Time Traces to sever his own life force to stabilize the heart of heaven.

As a result, the Celestial Venerable Shihen only reigned for nine thousand years, and lived a secluded life throughout his life. Even with the elixir of immortality, he was unable to live a second life.

When he passed away, his white hair transformed into countless silver butterflies, carrying fragments of the laws of time as they flew to the edge of the universe and disappeared into the depths of the chaotic sea.

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The celestial beings who followed became increasingly radiant and dazzling.

There was the Azure Netherworld Celestial Venerable who proved his Dao with a sword, his sword energy soaring and cleaving through the tribulation of proving Dao in half.

There was a Flame Celestial Venerable who controlled the Chaos Fire, who burned hundreds of small worlds to forge weapons, and finally triggered the Karmic Fire Red Lotus to burn away the Dao Fruit.

Even more extraordinary is the reappearance of two supreme beings shining together in one lifetime, with the yin and yang energies intertwined for forty thousand years, deeply imprinted in people's hearts.

(End of this chapter)