Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 290 The Great Changes in the Underworld
Liang Yu was taken aback. Go to the Underworld? Surely it wasn't to visit the Underworld Emperor? He wasn't the Underworld Lord, and he had a deep understanding of the Immortal Path in the Mortal World and Origin Techniques. A mere Earth Immortal would hardly be of any help to their cultivation.

However, upon thinking of the Underworld Lord, Liang Yu suddenly realized: "Is Fellow Daoist Yuanshi about to end this life?"

Yuanshi Tianzun, upon reaching the age of 30,000 in his third incarnation, feigned opening the Immortal Gate to escape the world and ended the Mythical Era. Now, 10,000 years have passed since the end of the Mythical Era, and even his remaining traces of the Great Dao have dissipated. This means that Yuanshi Tianzun's third incarnation is already a full 40,000 years old. Although this is a very long time, Yuanshi Tianzun should still have several thousand years of life left.

Liang Yu's third incarnation existed for 48,000 years, which is an unimaginably long period of time, but not impossible to match. Even if Yuanshi Tianzun's third incarnation did not live as long, it should still have lasted for more than 40,000 years.

After all, they all relied on their own continuous resurrection to live, without using elixirs of immortality or Nine-Turn Immortal Pills. Even if the Primordial Celestial Venerable was not perfect due to the separation of his Dao Fruit, the difference wouldn't be too significant.

But now it seems that Yuanshi Tianzun is already preparing for his next life. Could it be that he has cultivated some secret technique that prematurely consumed thousands of years of his lifespan?

As if seeing through Liang Yu's thoughts, Yuanshi Banner said, "I should still have several thousand years of life left in this life, probably reaching forty-five thousand years at most. But now I have discovered the method of transformation. If I wait until my life is exhausted, I'm afraid it will be difficult to succeed. That's why I'm starting now."

Liang Yu said, "Could it be related to the Dharma of the Underworld Lord?"

Yuanshi Banner said, "Fellow Daoist Wuji is right. My transformation this time comes from his method of reincarnation, as well as the method of Phoenix Nirvana that I comprehended from you."

Liang Yu stood up and said, "In that case, I'll go see you, fellow Daoist. It's been quite a while since I last saw you, Fellow Daoist Underworld Emperor."

With that, Liang Yu and the Primordial Banner tore through the void and headed towards the Underworld. During this process, Liang Yu also continuously observed this clone, which had far surpassed the one that had just been separated in the past.

This avatar, formed through the fusion of the Dao Fruit and the Primordial Banner deity, indeed possessed a vitality akin to the Boundless Dao Stele, seemingly transforming into a living being. If the Primordial Celestial Venerable's true form were to die in the future, he could even continue to live through this avatar. After all, under the influence of the Primordial Celestial Venerable's Dao Fruit and the Kunlun Sacred Realm, it had already become a celestial artifact, possessing immortal characteristics.

The Primordial Celestial Venerable is pursuing two paths simultaneously. His main body is responsible for continuous transformation and the attainment of new Dao fruits, while his avatars rely on the immortality of celestial artifacts to continuously cultivate and increase their Dao cultivation and strength. If this continues, the Dao fruits he creates in the future may not be weaker than those his main body is currently cultivating.

Although this would greatly increase the difficulty of his Dao Fruit fusion, the benefits are also obvious, as it does significantly improve his cultivation efficiency.

Although Liang Yu had already anticipated this when Yuanshi Tianzun had just separated his Dao Fruit, seeing it in person still amazed him. He could only say that Yuanshi Tianzun truly lived up to his reputation.

Speaking of lifespan, although Liang Yu is already 40,000 years old in this life, he is still at his peak, showing no signs of decline. The wonders of the Chaos Body and the Chaos Laws are indeed beyond his imagination. Even though he has cultivated the Chaos Laws to perfection through the Unification of All Laws, he still found that his cultivated Chaos Laws had many problems after he truly became a Chaos Body.

For the past forty thousand years, Liang Yu has been refining the laws of chaos and perfecting his Dao fruit. Only recently did he truly perfect the laws of chaos in the human realm and create a Chaos Immortal Scripture.

Although theoretically this ancient scripture doesn't require a Chaos Body and anyone can cultivate it, in reality, due to the complexity and profundity of the laws of chaos, those without a Chaos Body struggle even to enter the gate. Therefore, this ancient scripture is far more difficult to cultivate than those he created before. To cultivate this ancient scripture, one must either possess a Chaos Body or be an unparalleled genius with heaven-defying comprehension. But regardless of which one, the number of such individuals in the entire universe spanning millions of years can be counted on one hand.

Therefore, although Liang Yu left this scripture in the human universe, he was also mentally prepared that this scripture would never be seen again.

Originally, Liang Yu intended to find the most suitable method for himself among the known methods of transformation and conduct in-depth research in the years to come, but he was unexpectedly interrupted by the Primordial Banner. Now, witnessing the transformation of the Primordial Celestial Venerable can be considered a kind of accumulation, and perhaps he can gain some insights from it. Even if he can't use it in this life, it might be useful in the future.

With Liang Yu and Yuanshi Banner's strength, they quickly crossed the endless starry sky and arrived at the Underworld.

At this time, the underworld was still as vast as ever, not much larger than before, but a thick world barrier began to appear above it. Although it was not separated from the human universe, it formed an almost independent world.

The Netherworld is home to many native races and a large number of monsters born from ancient corpses, death energy, and yin energy. Due to the previous supreme beings in the Underworld, the Netherworld is in chaos, and apart from a few core races, it is basically a chaotic mess of demons.

Later, although only the Underworld Lord and the Prison Suppressor Emperor remained as the supreme rulers of the Underworld, the chaos persisted. After all, the Underworld Lord had never had the time to manage these affairs. It wasn't until the Prison Suppressor Emperor used the Underworld as a blessed land, cultivated himself into an Earth Immortal, and was crowned the Underworld Emperor that the Underworld began to be effectively governed.

Now, tens of thousands of years later, a complete and stable order has been established in the underworld. The underworld is no longer a loosely self-imposed place of supreme beings, but has truly become a major force of great importance in the human universe.

Under the guidance and transformation of the Underworld Emperor, and with the bloodline evolution brought about by the changing era of the Great Universe, the native races of the Underworld have all gained more powerful bloodlines. Even those monsters that originally had little intelligence have begun to develop sentience and become members of the Underworld system.

Even in this generation's struggle for supremacy, the Underworld Emperor released several of the most outstanding seeds from the Underworld into the outside world, so that they could compete for the position of enlightenment.

It can be said that the underworld and the netherworld truly became a vast empire belonging to the dead and the underworld race.

Upon witnessing this scene, Liang Yu couldn't help but remark, "The current Underworld Emperor seems far more responsible than his predecessor. Compared to my last visit, this place has undergone a complete transformation."

Yuanshi Fan remained silent for a long time, but was still unable to refute. Although the Underworld Lord was his master, and he was more inclined to side with him psychologically, he could not honestly say that the Underworld Lord had managed the Underworld and the Netherworld very well.

So he could only change the subject: "Fellow Daoist Wuji, let's hurry up and go in. Don't keep Fellow Daoist Minghuang waiting."

(End of this chapter)