Covering the Sky: I am the King of Men, and I rule over the rise and fall of all heavens.

Chapter 59 A new conspiracy has emerged...

The ruthless man ignored Jiang Bai and went straight into a new round of seclusion.

This made Jiang Bai wonder if he had been too harsh in his advice to her.

"Bullshit, she's just plain crazy." After thinking for a moment, Jiang Bai decisively retorted, "The responsibility doesn't lie with me at all."

After leaving the desolate and forbidden land, Jiang Bai began his travels once again.

The Big Dipper at this time is very different from the original work. Many of the holy sites that appeared in the original work have not arrived, and many powerful clans have moved away.

Several ancient royal families, as well as some other great clans that swore to follow them to the death, all went to the starry sky.

Jiang Bai estimates that the grand gathering of all races from the original novel will no longer be seen.

The other holy lands, dynasties, and schools of thought that gradually moved to the Big Dipper during the ancient times did not come in this lifetime.

The representatives are the two great divine dynasties of Shenzhou and Jiuli in the original work, who now live on their respective ancestral planets.

In the original story, they all followed the Emperor's will, stationing themselves in Beidou at the appropriate time, waiting for the path to immortality to open.

However, some familiar scenes from the original work have also appeared on the land of Beidou, such as gambling on stones in the Holy City, and some families of Origin Arts have also appeared.

Watching the rogue cultivators nervously cutting stones in the Holy City, Jiang Bai felt a sense of disbelief; this was something he had never experienced before.

At that time, he was plagued by bad luck and only cared about escaping for his life.

Of course, it is also related to the fact that he had never been to Beidou when he was young.

With a sudden thought, Jiang Bai looked towards a certain place, took a step, and instantly arrived deep inside a sacred stone archway, frowning as he looked at two stones.

He had already seen the items inside. One was the spirit of the Immortal Ascension Cauldron, the Divine Child from the original story, who later became known as Emperor Yu Feng. The other was a small dragon-like insect, the younger brother of the Divine Emperor, the uncle of the Divine Silkworm Daoist, the Little Divine Silkworm from the original story, an existence who had lived for countless lifetimes, and also a bug-level character.

Everyone else in the stone archway stared nervously at Jiang Bai, wondering who this person, whose face was obscured, had suddenly appeared.

It should be noted that the person in charge of the stone archway at this time was a semi-saint, and there were also saints among the players, but none of them could figure out how Jiang Bai appeared, which was terrifying.

“If you take a fancy to these two stones, senior, my Yao Guang Sect can present them to you,” an elderly man with white hair and a youthful face stepped forward and said respectfully.

At this time, Yao Guang was not yet a holy land, but just an ordinary sect in the Big Dipper. Its strongest member was a saint who had not yet forged his own legendary holy weapon.

It would take several generations of development, until the Ruthless lineage took over and possessed the Great Saint Weapon passed down through generations, and even the Imperial Weapon Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron, before it reached the level of a Holy Land.

In this life, the Holy Body lineage had already avenged Lin Cheng and the Ruthless Man by repaying the people of that village. The Ruthless Man did not leave any inheritance, so it is questionable whether the Yao Guang lineage can still connect with the Ruthless Man.

Jiang Bai glanced at the half-saint old man from Yao Guang and chuckled, "Name your price."

"If you like it, senior, you may take it," the semi-saint old man from Yaoguang said with great conviction.

However, among those present, some sages began to shake their heads, thinking that the people of the Yao Guang Sect were far too ambitious, actually wanting to form a benevolent relationship with such a powerful figure whose strength was unknown.

They're not afraid of being slapped to death by a strongman.

Jiang Bai naturally knew what Yao Guang was thinking, and chuckled, "You can send someone to the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land to collect the reward later."

After saying that, Jiang Bai took the two stones away.

The elders of the Yao Guang Sect were dumbfounded. Wasn't that the forbidden ancient land the Daoist temple of the Ruthless Empress and the Great Accomplished Holy Body?

what did I do?
When leaving Beidou, Jiang Bai sent a telepathic message to Ruthless, asking her to pass on the Devouring Heaven Demon Art and the Undying Heaven Art to the Yao Guang Holy Land.

Well, if you're not trying to build good relationships or have grand ambitions, then go ahead and build them.

This is both a crisis and an opportunity. If handled well, you'll take off; if handled poorly, the Yao Guang Sect could be ruined by the Devouring Heaven Demon Art. The ruthless man quickly calculated the cause and effect. After some thought, he found a place, built a new large tomb, and appointed the Yao Guang Sect as its guardians. He also brought in the descendants of that village from that time, now from a small sect in the Beidou region.

The sage of the Yao Guang Sect looked at his sect's new identity—the person who had come through the Ruthless Competition—and the Emperor's Scripture he had obtained, and felt like crying but had no tears.

Good news, Yaoguang has a powerful backer.

Bad news: whether the big shot is protecting them or not is unknown, but the new Emperor Scripture they acquired has a pitfall. So, should they cultivate it or not?

With a sigh, the sage of the Yaoguang Sect first sent that half-saint old man to look after the Yaoguang Sect's cemetery, and then divided the Yaoguang Sect into two factions: one hidden and one open.

He cultivated the Yao Guang Technique normally on one hand, and the Devouring Heaven Demon Technique and the Undying Heaven Technique on the other.

Furthermore, the foundation of the new holy site built on the tomb of the ruthless man was changed to a state where it could be moved at any time.

Jiang Bai had no connection with the joys and sorrows of the Yao Guang Sect. At this moment, he returned to the Divine Land World and released the Divine Child and the Little Divine Silkworm.

Within the divine child's primordial spirit, Jiang Bai saw a very well-hidden rune.

Jiang Bai sensed the aura of an emperor within the runes.

"Was this arranged by the Emperor? To condense the Immortal Cauldron when the Immortal Ascension Path opens on Flying Immortal Star?" Jiang Bai had a guess in his heart.

The arrangement of Flying Immortal Star was definitely not set up at the end of the Emperor's Mythological Era.

Neither the Celestial Venerable of Nirvana nor the Serpent Transformation were sealed at that time; otherwise, the Celestial Venerable of Immortality and the Undying Emperor would not have been unaware of it back then.

Therefore, it is highly likely that this was a secret contingency plan devised by the Emperor in his later years, a grand scheme set up to test whether the path to immortality was genuine.

"But that's not important. What's important is whether I should follow the aura of the Emperor on this rune to find him."

Jiang Bai felt uneasy; the Emperor's combat strength was a problem.

The strength of the Immortal Emperor can be deduced based on the original timeline, but the strength of the Emperor Venerable cannot be calculated.

Moreover, Emperor Venerable has most likely already become an immortal. The reason he hasn't made a move yet is probably because he wants to refine several mortal immortals for his own use in one go, then strengthen himself, and then refine the strange world and the universe of Shrouding the Heavens, so as to step into a higher realm in one go.

That's possible.

Weapons are an extension of the Great Emperor. When the realm of weapons surpasses that of the Great Emperor himself, they can give back to the Great Emperor. At the very least, it is possible to specify a certain path.

In the original work, Shi Huang and others intended to shatter the imperial weapons of the heavens and strengthen their own imperial weapons. They also wanted to take this path to make their imperial weapons stronger and give back to themselves.

The Immortal Ascension Cauldron was the Emperor's weapon of proof. After it was transformed into an immortal artifact, the Emperor's Great Dao within it would also evolve, naturally giving back to the Emperor.

Now that the Emperor has become an immortal, he doesn't know where the road ahead lies. He can't enter the Immortal Realm on his own, so it's not impossible for him to forge a super weapon based on the world, and then use the interconnected Great Dao to point the way for himself, so that his cultivation can advance further and open up the path to immortality.

“There’s another theory: the Emperor has run into trouble since the end of the mythology era, and he’s been trying to save himself all these years.” Jiang Bai thought of another possibility that could overturn all the previous conjectures.

After all, the universe of Shrouding the Heavens is composed of the broken Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, fragments of the Immortal Realm, and a portion of the Burial Soil. There are all sorts of secrets and darkness within it, especially in the mythological era.

Given the generally stubborn and reckless nature of the people in Shrouding the Heavens, it's possible that the Emperor might capsize due to his recklessness.

"Regardless of which theory it is, going to see the Emperor now is not a wise thing to do." Jiang Bai decided not to go.

In an unknown place, a man who inspired awe upon first sight frowned.

"They took the clues I gave them, but didn't come looking for me."

"The young man has a good ability to control his temper."

(End of this chapter)