Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 208 The Carefree Celestial Venerable, you *****!
Just as those supreme beings from the forbidden zones began the second phase of their plan, Liang Yu suddenly felt the power impacting the array he had laid out on the path to immortality vanish. Of course, the sealing array he left behind remained intact, undamaged.

What's going on here? Is this a feint attack followed by a counterattack? This carefree Celestial Venerable first revealed his aura to lure him to the Heavenly Realm, and then used some unknown means to attack Liang Yu's great array that seals the dark power when he was almost there. This forced Liang Yu to switch targets again and go to the Path to Immortality to check the sealing array when faced with two opposing forces.

Now that the power of the attack formation has disappeared, I wonder what new tricks the Carefree Celestial Venerable is planning to pull this time.

But Liang Yu did not stop or turn back; instead, he continued toward the path to immortality. This was because his grand formation of ten pagodas had already sealed off the heavens and the abyss, and the Free and Unfettered Celestial Venerable and his companions had not attempted to break the formation to escape.

Secondly, now that he's halfway there, he can't ignore the dark forces that pose a greater threat. After all, although he doesn't know how the Carefree Celestial Venerable learned the secrets of that place and even attacked his seal, it means that the Carefree Celestial Venerable has a way to trigger this hidden danger.

This is equivalent to a time bomb in the hands of the Carefree Celestial Venerable, ready to explode at any moment. Therefore, to prevent them from becoming desperate and directly introducing dark power into the mortal realm, Liang Yu plans to resolve this major problem first. Without this trump card, those supreme beings will naturally find it difficult to hide.

After all, the ten pagodas he left behind were still constantly evolving new array patterns, and even began to incorporate source techniques. With this grand array in place, even if they wanted to escape, it could stop them for quite some time. Moreover, even without this grand array, it wouldn't be easy for them to escape. They would be easily exposed if they were with the Celestial, so they couldn't escape; without the Celestial, even if they escaped, they wouldn't have the Earth Treasury. Therefore, Liang Yu wasn't too worried about not being able to catch them.

Regardless, Liang Yu was indeed outmaneuvered this time by the Free and Unfettered Celestial. During this process, the Free and Unfettered Celestial used the information gap to force Liang Yu to retreat, making him rush back and forth in haste, thus buying himself considerable time. Although brief, it should have been enough.

It can be predicted that by the time Liang Yu returns to the heavens, the Carefree Celestial Venerable will have already achieved his goal.

But Liang Yu felt no disappointment; instead, he began to feel a surge of excitement. After all, he had been invincible in the mortal realm for far too long. Perhaps it was precisely because no one could pose a threat to him that he had become complacent, allowing the Carefree Celestial Venerable to outmaneuver him and cause some events to slip out of his control.

However, at this moment, Liang Yu couldn't help but feel a little curious. He was looking forward to seeing what surprise the Celestial Venerable Xiaoyao had prepared for him.

Soon, he arrived at the side of the path to immortality. Liang Yu threw a punch, merging Yin and Yang energies into one, forming countless chaotic energies. This punch had no astonishing power, but it silently tore open a large hole in the void of the universe, within which countless immortal lights flowed, and a chaotic hole appeared, which was the node of this path to immortality.

Perhaps because another path to immortality has opened in the universe, and the immortal realm is relatively close to the mortal world, this long-abandoned path to immortality has begun to be filled with various immortal lights and auras, as if it were close to immortality itself.

Just as Liang Yu entered the path to immortality, the six forbidden zones in the universe began to undergo strange changes.

Besides Tianyuan and Shangcang, the forbidden zones involved in this plan include the Samsara Sea, Yuhua Divine Island, Mount Sumeru, Daluo Immortal Mountain, Dark Ice Plain, and Amethyst Palace.

After receiving the signal from the Celestial Venerable of Freedom, they gradually piled up all the resources and treasures they had collected over countless years from the six forbidden zones onto the array platform. These things included immortal sources, immortal gold, divine springs, primordial life stones, and so on, encompassing almost all the most precious divine treasures in the human world.

Under the changing array patterns, no matter what divine treasures they placed on it, they would be quickly decomposed and transformed into pure energy and transported away.

"This carefree Celestial Venerable is truly skilled. This formation can actually completely decompose all these things. It seems that our plan to refine the Immortal Treasure Bottle is indeed feasible."

The supreme beings gradually gained confidence. Soon, they poured all their resources from the six forbidden zones into the great formation.

Meanwhile, in the heavens, the waterfall formed from the six divine lights cascaded down, piling up on the main array platform and beginning to show signs of forming a treasure bottle. The Carefree Celestial Venerable tossed his Immortal Tear Green Gold Treasure Bottle onto the platform, and the bottle instantly disintegrated and merged into it. The Carefree Celestial Venerable said, "Now."

The Lord of Tianyuan showed no reluctance; he summoned Tianyuan, which he had created with his own hands, along with all the treasures of their two forbidden zones. All of this was then dispersed into the central array platform.

Then, the entire Burial Sky Island began to radiate boundless immortal light, stirred by countless array patterns, and countless divine lights of laws began to be drawn into the treasure bottle. As the treasure bottle continued to take shape, Burial Sky Island also began to continuously release its divine radiance into the treasure bottle.

The carefree Celestial Venerable changed the array patterns once again.

Upon seeing the changes in the array patterns, the Supreme Beings within the six forbidden zones were immediately invigorated. They vigorously imprinted their own Dao imprints into the array platform. These imprints naturally contained the supreme Dao fruits of dozens of them. This imprint was both a weapon forging process and an imprinting of their own Dao imprints within it, so as not to have their efforts benefit others.

In an instant, dozens of Great Dao imprints traversed the endless void through the array platform. Immediately afterward, the ten individuals also unleashed their own Great Dao imprints. Instantly, these countless divine rays of light were condensed into one by these Great Dao imprints, transforming into a new treasure bottle, seemingly capable of containing all the heavens.

Countless human-shaped imprints covered the bottle, gradually merging into one, pushing the laws within the bottle to their extreme. This bottle seemed to have the potential to become a celestial artifact, faintly emanating celestial light. It could be said that, given enough time, this item would undoubtedly become a celestial artifact.

The carefree Celestial Venerable laughed and said, "Fellow Daoists, the crucial moment has arrived."

As he spoke, he changed the array patterns again, and the other nine Supreme Beings also stood ready.

Beyond the other six forbidden zones, the five supreme beings—the Moral Celestial Venerable, the Spiritual Treasure Celestial Venerable, the Primordial Celestial Venerable, the Underworld Venerable, and the Primordial Primordial Five Supreme Beings—and the four supreme beings who attained enlightenment through alternative means have already arrived at the edge of the forbidden zones.

Although these supreme beings in the restricted areas seem to have done a lot, it all happened in the blink of an eye.

Despite facing imminent calamity, they remained calm and activated the array before them. Instantly, the laws of the void converged, creating a domain gate within each forbidden zone. They rose to their feet, eager to escape before Lingbao Tianzun and the others could seal off the void.

However, immediately afterward, two waves of divine powers, one from the front and one from the back, blasted out the Supreme Beings who had just entered the domain gates in the six forbidden zones.

In that instant, the gate, programmed to self-destruct to prevent being tracked, vanished. They lost their chance to escape.

The Supreme Beings within these six forbidden zones immediately understood that they had been sacrificed as pawns to attract attention. The ten Supreme Beings on the other side were clearly deliberately delaying them for a moment, preventing them from entering the domain gate. This situation immediately threw them off balance.

"The carefree Celestial Venerable, I *****!"

(End of this chapter)