Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 218 Find a new way
This is because the newly enlightened Yuanshi Tianzun was actually comparable in strength to the newly enlightened Wuji Tianzun back then, and even achieved enlightenment at a faster pace.

This has directly sobered up these supreme beings. This new Dao Prover might actually be another figure like the Limitless Heavenly Venerable. As long as he can grow to the state of the second incarnation of the Limitless Heavenly Venerable, they will once again face the predicament of being helpless and being instantly killed as soon as they show their faces.

Moreover, when the path to immortality opens this time, the other party will most likely still be alive. In that case, they will face the backup plan left by the Wuji Heavenly Venerable and a living Heavenly Venerable whose strength far surpasses their own.

How can they possibly advance on the path to immortality? Many of them are supreme beings from the early to middle stages of the mythological era, or even before the mythological era, and they can't wait for another chance.

Moreover, even if they could wait, with two consecutive Dao Proving Beings being so extraordinary, who knows what will happen next? As Dao Proving Beings who were once invincible for an era, they certainly couldn't place their hopes on luck; they had to take control of their own destiny.

Therefore, they ultimately agreed to the Celestial Venerable's plan and began to study how to solve the time and safety issues, so that they could forge the immortal artifact in one fell swoop when the path to immortality opened, and then join forces to enter the path to immortality. Of course, their communication still mainly relied on the Heavenly Secrets Scroll.

The other five Supreme Beings of the Primordial Ancient Mine had already decided to participate in the Reincarnation and Ascension plans, so they were in a deep slumber and, undisturbed, had no connection to the outside world. Therefore, they were completely unaware of the actions of the Carefree Celestial Venerable.

The first problem that the Carefree Celestial Venerable and the other Supreme Beings solved was the issue of time. The Carefree Celestial Venerable proposed two solutions: first, to incorporate a sacrificial ritual into the refining process to instantly transform various materials; and second, to extract the essence of wondrous lands. Both methods could greatly save time.

The other supreme beings were naturally extremely shocked after studying these two plans, as they were considered very valuable secret techniques for those who had attained enlightenment.

Seeing how many secret techniques and how much effort the Celestial Venerable Xiaoyao had put into this process, the Supreme Beings, who had initially been somewhat skeptical and wary of him, began to truly believe in his plan. They also joined in, working together to design the array platform for refining immortal artifacts.

As long as they are willing to invest heavily, consuming vast amounts of immortal gold and divine materials, as well as the primordial power of various forbidden zones, then this array platform can indeed be forged into the form of an immortal artifact in a very short time. As for its laws and divine essence, they naturally come from the intertwining of the Dao imprints of their dozens of individuals. This aspect cannot be rushed; they can only achieve complete success by spending time refining and integrating them.

Regarding security, it was still the solution proposed by the Carefree Celestial Venerable. He suggested that they break down the array platform into several parts, each responsible for a portion of the weapon-refining process, to prevent being wiped out in one fell swoop. Under the cover of the Heaven-Deceiving Array Patterns, it was manageable for them to construct the array platform and patterns within the restricted area, but if they revealed their presence, they were still very likely to be discovered.

Therefore, they decided to exploit the time difference. That is, to disperse and expose their aura when the path to immortality opens, to forge immortal artifacts in the shortest possible time, and then, after attracting the backup plans left by the Primordial Celestial Venerable or the Limitless Celestial Venerable, to complete their mission in the extremely short time before they arrive, and then leave directly through a specific domain gate.

Of course, if the Limitless Celestial Venerable's backup plan or the Primordial Celestial Venerable is too close, then they'll simply abandon the artifact forging and leave. As long as five or six forbidden zones complete their objectives, forging a celestial artifact should be enough. It sounds good, but the risk is still very high. After all, can the domain gate they're researching really escape unscathed from their opponent?

Therefore, the Carefree Celestial Venerable proposed that he knew a secret left behind by the Limitless Celestial Venerable, which involved one of his grand plans. He argued that if they joined forces to attack that location, they could definitely trigger the Limitless Celestial Venerable's backup plan. If they could use this method to lure away the Limitless Celestial Venerable's methods first, wouldn't they be safe?
So, their plan was finalized.

Of course, the method by which the Carefree Celestial Venerable attacked the seal left by Liang Yu was actually through this accidentally discovered world rift. As long as he channeled the divine powers transmitted by the various Supreme Beings through the domain gate into this spatial rift, he could directly impact Liang Yu's grand formation from within the seal, creating the illusion that the dark forces were about to break free. Naturally, knowing that Liang Yu was most likely still in the mortal realm, the Carefree Celestial Venerable had already considered the Moral Celestial Venerable, the Spiritual Treasure Celestial Venerable, the Underworld Celestial Venerable, the Primordial Celestial Venerable, and Liang Yu himself in his plan. Therefore, although the actual situation didn't go entirely according to their plan, if the Carefree Celestial Venerable hadn't harbored ulterior motives, their chances of success wouldn't have been small.

However, even if they succeed temporarily, they will most likely be blocked on the path to immortality in the end.

However, this plan was merely a means for the Carefree Celestial Venerable to gather all the dark power and use it to forge immortal artifacts; his plan did not end there.

For most Supreme Beings, the occasional moments they awoke over these forty thousand years were spent perfecting their array patterns, as both weapon crafting and domain gates were crucial to their grand plans. However, this was not the case for the Heavenly Emperor, the five Supreme Beings, and the four Supreme Beings within the Heavenly Abyss excluding the Elder of Fortune.

Because the Celestial Venerable of Freedom had shown them the rift in the world. While the nine Supreme Beings were still in shock, the Celestial Venerable of Freedom proposed his second plan.

That is, to invite these nine Supreme Beings to join him in plotting against the Supreme Beings of the other six forbidden zones, preventing them from passing through the domain gate. In this way, these Supreme Beings who have already been exposed can be used as bait to lure away all the methods of the Limitless Heavenly Venerable and the Primordial Heavenly Venerable.

At that time, they could take the opportunity to manipulate the celestial artifacts and escape into another world within this rift. It can be said that this is a vicious scheme that completely abandons the other supreme beings, allowing them to enjoy the benefits alone.

Although the nine supreme beings were tempted, how could the unknown world that this rift led to compare with the Immortal Realm? Therefore, they also fell into hesitation.

But the Carefree Celestial Venerable quickly convinced them. This was because this path to immortality wasn't the most accurate one they had calculated; in fact, Liang Yu had even told the Carefree Celestial Venerable that this path was unlikely to lead to success. The Carefree Celestial Venerable deliberately exaggerated, claiming that this path to immortality was one that the Limitless Ultimate Celestial Venerable had personally denied. Since the Carefree Celestial Venerable's reputation had always been excellent, they naturally believed him.

However, the Celestial Venerable Xiaoyao wasn't exactly deceiving them. After all, it was unknown what kind of strength was needed to enter this path to immortality. Even when a Heavenly Emperor-level Emperor Venerable joined forces with several Supreme Beings who had recovered to their peak and activated the immortal artifacts together, they still couldn't succeed.

Therefore, their failure rate is extremely high if they were to actually fight. However, if they are lucky enough to reach the strange world like the Emperor, then there might be a glimmer of hope. But apart from Liang Yu, no one knows that there is such a fork in the road to immortality. So naturally, they will not place their hopes on this.

So, the heavens quietly moved above this rift in the world, obscuring the secrets of heaven and completely covering the rift.

Of course, this is still a plan that appears to have a very high success rate on the surface, but in reality it is just a fake plan made by the Carefree Celestial Venerable for his own transformation.

(End of this chapter)