Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 273 Rebuilding
At this moment, the universe was in an uproar. Judging from the fluctuations of the Heavenly Heart Mark, the aura of the Primordial Celestial Venerable only left behind the undissipated Great Dao Mark, while the Supreme Mark that originally covered all the Daos had disappeared.

Could it be that Yuanshi Tianzun has passed away? Or perhaps he committed suicide? But Yuanshi Tianzun himself said that the Immortal Gate would open tens of thousands of years later. Could it be that he is going to fall before he can become an immortal? Then who will verify whether this Immortal Gate is feasible?

Countless cultivators felt a deep sense of regret. After all, although the vast majority of cultivators could not achieve immortality, the mere fact that it was truly achievable was enough to excite them. And now, the Primordial Celestial Venerable, who had the best chance of proving immortality, was suspected of having passed away.

After all, the Supreme Celestial Venerable Wuji, the Supreme Celestial Venerable Daode, and the Celestial Venerable Lingbao all entered the path to immortality through battle, and then collaborated with the Primordial Celestial Venerable to establish the Immortal Gate. Therefore, those three Celestial Venerables should have already attained immortality. The Primordial Celestial Venerable who remained in the mortal realm was likely there to test whether the Immortal Gate was truly feasible. If the Primordial Celestial Venerable passes away, it's uncertain when the next person to successfully enter the Immortal Gate will emerge.

Even disregarding these factors, Yuanshi Tianzun has guided countless cultivators throughout the universe over the years, ushering in a glorious era of cultivation. Countless individuals are considered his unofficial successors or successors of his successors. Therefore, Yuanshi Tianzun is now a patriarch-level figure in the universe. It is precisely because of this act of passing on his teachings that countless cultivators are unwilling to believe he has died so suddenly.

However, some cultivators familiar with the past deeds of Yuanshi Tianzun quickly connected the dots and realized that Yuanshi Tianzun's second incarnation was also a similar case. In that incarnation, Yuanshi Tianzun's mark disappeared, but he abandoned everything to be reborn and became even more powerful. Therefore, while others may have died or committed suicide, there is another possibility for Yuanshi Tianzun: he severed his cultivation and started anew.

After all, although Yuanshi Tianzun has only lived two lifetimes, his various actions have fully demonstrated that he is no ordinary Dao-proving being. His ability to easily crush the seven self-severed Supremes of the Dark Ice Plains is enough to show that his strength is not necessarily weaker than that of the second incarnation of Wuji Tianzun. How could such a figure not live to a third lifetime?
However, the current situation is that the mark of the Primordial Celestial Venerable has disappeared, and only his residual aura of the Great Dao remains. Countless cultivators are eagerly awaiting his return. They both hope that the Primordial Celestial Venerable will return to verify the authenticity of the immortal sects, but they also fear that if he remains alive, others will have no chance to rise to prominence.

Liang Yu left the Kunlun Sacred Realm long after Yuanshi Tianzun began his reincarnation. After all, although this process was very short, the most valuable part was the method of separating one's own Dao Fruit, allowing it to truly exist independently. And this method came from the Dao-Merging Flower.

Therefore, Liang Yu left his Dao Self beside the Harmony Flower. He had been too rushed in his previous life, which prevented him from fully understanding it, and he needed to make up for it in this life. Even if the mysteries within were not enough to transform Liang Yu, it would still be a form of accumulation of Dao cultivation.

In addition, there was another method by which the Primordial Celestial Venerable merged his own Dao Fruit into the Primordial Banner. Liang Yu naturally quickly discerned the clues to this method as well.

The Dao Fruit of the Primordial Celestial Venerable has basically merged with the divine essence of the Primordial Banner, making this weapon an existence like his own clone, as if it had gained life and could cultivate and improve on its own.

After all, the treasure of enlightenment can be considered, to some extent, an extension of the life of the one who has attained enlightenment. The deities and laws contained within it are perfectly aligned with and inherited from the one who has attained enlightenment. Such a Primordial Banner can naturally be perfectly matched and perfectly integrated with the Dao Fruit of the Primordial Heavenly Venerable.

The Primordial Banner of today is not only a celestial artifact but also surpasses it, and even shows signs of almost becoming a special life form, much like the Boundless Dao Stele.

In other words, all the growth and improvement of the Primordial Banner afterward has been aimed at making the Primordial Celestial Venerable's Dao Fruit, or rather, this avatar, increasingly stronger. Moreover, since this avatar is essentially a weapon, it can also be considered a form of alternative immortality. Therefore, if the Primordial Celestial Venerable's main body were to encounter an accident, it could even serve as a means for his resurrection. In this case, the growth of the Primordial Banner is equivalent to the growth of the Primordial Celestial Venerable's Dao Fruit, which is equivalent to the growth of the Primordial Celestial Venerable himself. In this way, the Dao Fruit that the Primordial Celestial Venerable separated would not become unable to keep pace with his later Dao Fruit due to a long period of stagnation.

However, in the end, when Yuanshi Tianzun separated the Dao Fruit from the Yuanshi Banner and reintegrated it into himself, the Yuanshi Banner completely disappeared. All the divine essence within this treasure was absorbed into Yuanshi Tianzun's body along with the Dao Fruit, leaving only an empty shell.

While comprehending the Dao-Merging Flower, Liang Yu also studied the Primordial Banner. After all, this method could be considered an upgraded version of the Primordial Spirit Dao-Merging Weapon, and even if Liang Yu himself didn't use it, it was still a form of accumulation.

The Primordial Celestial Venerable himself quickly emerged from the Kunlun Immortal Pool. In this life, his physique and origin had actually increased only slightly compared to his previous life, since his Dao Fruit had been separated and was not used as nourishment.

Of course, the Primordial Celestial Venerable made far fewer noises in this life. The array patterns and Origin Celestial Divine Patterns he laid out were enough to provide sufficient essence of heaven and earth for his rebirth. Therefore, he would not drain half of the starry sky like a bottomless pit in his previous life.

Of course, after his last transformation, he was still a saint, but this time he lost all his cultivation. However, this was exactly what Yuanshi Tianzun wanted; he hoped to become a blank canvas again and create a different picture.

Seeing that Liang Yu was comprehending the Dao Flower, Yuanshi Tianzun did not linger and left Kunlun Sacred Realm directly. Of course, the Yuanshi Banner that nurtured his previous Dao Fruit was still slowly growing in Kunlun Sacred Realm; he only took the Myriad Things Origin Cauldron with him.

In his previous two incarnations, Yuanshi Tianzun pursued ultimate, invincible power. In his first incarnation, he used the secret of the character "皆" (jie), and in his second, he used the power to create heaven and earth. Therefore, the Dao fruits of his previous two incarnations can be summarized by the Seal of Heaven-Opening. Thus, his current Dao fruit is naturally combined with the Yuanshi Banner.

In this third incarnation, he would naturally forge a path that would allow him to perfectly integrate with the Cauldron of All Things, and in the future, separate this Dao Fruit and combine it with the Cauldron of All Things to create a second divine embryo. Liang Yu's guess was correct; the Primordial Celestial Venerable indeed did not intend to combine only two Dao Fruits.

Therefore, back in his previous life, he decided on the direction of his cultivation in his third life: the path of evolving all laws and encompassing all phenomena. In other words, in this life, he would abandon the pursuit of ultimate power and begin to explore a path of infinite transformations similar to Liang Yu's "All Laws Connecting to Heaven." Thus, the Primordial Celestial Venerable specifically sought out Liang Yu's "Myriad Laws Heavenly Technique" as a reference, and initially created the scriptures.

The Primordial Celestial Venerable, having entered the universe, began his re-cultivation.

(End of this chapter)