Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 267 Acquired Evolution of Chaotic Body

Hundreds of years have passed, and the chaotic energy permeating Mount Wuji has gradually dissipated, returning to tranquility. Even so, Mount Wuji still faintly exudes a sense of transcendence, yet it also carries a strong aura of vicissitude and antiquity, as if it were an ancient divine mountain since the beginning of time.

Under the influence of Liang Yuyan's transformation of chaos, this immortal mountain began to solidify, becoming almost as indestructible as immortal metal. With the interweaving of Origin Heaven Divine Patterns and Array Patterns, this immortal mountain was almost about to evolve again.

Meanwhile, the space inside the immortal mountain continues to expand during this process. From the outside, one can only see a majestic mountain peak, but once inside the mountain's range, one discovers that this immortal mountain reaches straight into the clouds, vast and boundless, seemingly larger than the stars.

In other words, Wuji Immortal Mountain has grown further. Originally, these wondrous places were self-contained, with their own laws and Dao traces, but they were only connected to the Great Universe; now, the independence of Wuji Immortal Mountain has become stronger. Although its origin is still closely connected to the origin of the Great Universe, its interior has begun to no longer border the Great Universe, and there is even a tendency for it to change into an independent realm.

Of course, this isn't unique to Wuji Immortal Mountain, but rather to this extraordinary place. Mount Tai, currently under restoration, already shows signs of this. It's foreseeable that this extraordinary place will further develop into a relatively independent world.

Of course, this is not absolute. After all, the old Kunlun Immortal Mountain in its heyday may not be as great as the current Wuji Immortal Mountain, but it is still greater than the Taishan Mountain, which has not yet been fully restored. However, the old Kunlun Immortal Mountain was just huge, but it had not yet begun to form an independent domain.

The entire Wuji Immortal Mountain has undergone such a dramatic change, and the place where its core laws converge—the Immortal Pool that Liang Yu transformed and evolved—has become even more wondrous. The Immortal Pool should now be called the Chaos Immortal Pool, its waters entirely resembling divine liquid condensed from chaotic energy.

Although it appears to be just a pond a few dozen meters in diameter, if you were to actually enter it, you would find that the water is as vast as an ocean. Within this water, countless chaotic divine liquids ripple, as if they were about to transform into the source of all things and give rise to the myriad worlds.

This is also the effect of the power of the world, causing the Chaos Immortal Pool to subtly begin to have a boundary with the Boundless Immortal Mountain, even to the point of seeming to become independent. Of course, just like the wondrous lands are to the great universe, this Immortal Pool is actually perfectly integrated with the Boundless Immortal Mountain, and it is even the core of the Boundless Immortal Mountain. So, this is only superficially a separation; in reality, they are inseparable.

The immortal elixirs residing within the Boundless Immortal Mountain naturally benefited from this. After all, the essence of chaotic energy far surpasses the vast majority of energy in the human universe.

Over these hundreds of years, Yuanshi Tianzun had naturally been gone for a long time. After understanding Liang Yu's entire transformation process, he went to prepare for his own transformation.

After hundreds of years, Liang Yu finally completed this transformation. His arduous cultivation of the Path of Ten Thousand Laws, spanning hundreds of thousands of years, has now achieved the unification of all laws, giving rise to the primordial chaotic laws. Thus, he completely transformed himself into a chaotic body, and thereby lived his fifth incarnation. Moreover, thanks to the Nirvana method of the Phoenix lineage, Liang Yu now feels an unprecedented sense of fulfillment.

In other words, he has already achieved the feat of creating the first chaotic body in the human universe through acquired means. Judging from the events that followed, there were three paths to acquiring a chaotic body, but only two of them were successful.

The first method is the fusion of all methods that Liang Yu has achieved, and the nurturing of a hundred scriptures in the furnace that Ye Fan achieved in the later generations. This method is undoubtedly the most difficult. After all, it is completely creating something from nothing, changing one's innate physique through acquired knowledge of the Dao and methods, requiring strong comprehension as support. The second method is to fuse the origins of countless special physiques into one furnace, thereby generating a chaotic origin and becoming a chaotic body. Only the Ruthless Great Emperor of the later generations succeeded on this path. Her Devouring Heaven Demon Art can devour and contain the origins of others to strengthen herself, with the best effect on those with special physiques and special bloodlines.

However, the demonic embryo cultivated through the Devouring Heaven Demon Art has certain flaws. It still needs to undergo a transformation into a divine embryo through the Undying Heaven Art to truly become a Chaos Body. The Yao Guang of later generations was limited by these two techniques, leading them down a difficult path. Of course, the main reason was that the Golden Crow Emperor had already attained enlightenment.

If Yao Guang chooses to follow his own path, completely breaking away from the legacy of the Ruthless Great Emperor, he can at most only achieve unconventional enlightenment, and will be no match for Ye Fan, who is still constantly improving. Without the Golden Crow Great Emperor, he might have a chance to contend with the ever-evolving Ye Fan once he attains enlightenment. But currently, unable to attain enlightenment, he is fundamentally incapable of comparing himself to Ye Fan.

Therefore, he could only place his hopes on becoming a Chaos Body. After all, only a Chaos Body could ignore the suppression of the Heavenly Heart Mark and attain enlightenment. But this also meant that he would have to completely, or at least partially, return to the path of the Ruthless Emperor. But even the Ruthless Emperor in his first life failed to cultivate a perfect Chaos Body, so there was no need to elaborate on his own. The result was that he could only create a half-baked, flawed Chaos Body.

However, regardless of the circumstances, the method of fusing the origins of countless special constitutions is indeed feasible. Based on Liang Yu's previous research on special constitutions, their formation is due to the integration of special laws and divine power into their origins, resulting in a series of enhancements and modifications. Therefore, fusing the origins of these constitutions is essentially about integrating these all-encompassing fragments of the laws of heaven and earth, along with the divine power within them, into one.

Although he had not yet witnessed the demonic embryo of the Devouring Heaven Demon Art, Liang Yu believed that such a state must be a transitional state caused by the inability to perfectly integrate the laws and divinity contained in these countless origins.

As for the transformation of the Divine Embryo in the Undying Heavenly Art, it naturally involves clarifying the essence from this chaotic state, finding a way to perfectly integrate these powers, and thus transforming oneself.

The third method involves the underworld fusing the true blood of countless beings. However, this method was not entirely successful. Although the underworld created a chaotic monster, it clearly failed to replicate the mysteries of the chaotic body.

Therefore, there are only two ways to evolve into a chaotic body later in life. Of course, Liang Yu had also considered a theoretically possible new method: to directly master the laws of chaos in one step and use them to transform his own physique into a chaotic body. Just like Liang Yu once transformed himself into the Myriad Laws Profound Body through the success of the Myriad Laws Connection to Heaven, or like the Moral Celestial Venerable transforming himself into the Supreme Immortal Body.

However, it is clear that this method is also ridiculously difficult. After all, the laws of chaos are the root of everything, and their cultivation is extremely difficult. It is very difficult to fully master them unless one is a chaotic being, let alone cultivate them to this level.

Therefore, this method is essentially hopeless and is merely a hypothetical concept of Liang Yu. After all, he himself derived chaos from the principle of unifying all laws.

(End of this chapter)