Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 306 Alone
Time flies, and another three thousand years have passed. The Immortal Emperor is now twenty thousand years old. This supreme deity currently existing in the human universe has begun to decline. However, his cultivation has become increasingly profound, and his vitality is unimaginably vigorous. His divine dynasty has further consolidated its rule over all the heavens and myriad realms, becoming the unshakeable ruler of the great universe.

The ten tribes he had originally recruited have all developed into the most powerful races in the universe over the past 20,000 years. Even Ning Fei's small tribe, which couldn't even hold onto an ancient star, has become powerful.

It can even be predicted that even if the Undying Emperor goes into seclusion and the Undying Dynasty disbands, these ten tribes will still be able to prosper and maintain a dominant position.

However, after this period of time, the Seven Gods, who relied on the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill to live a second life, once again reached the end of this life.

In the original timeline, the seven of them only reached the ninth level of Quasi-Emperor realm throughout their lives. Perhaps their combat power was stronger than that of an average Quasi-Emperor at the ninth level, but they ultimately did not reach the point of achieving enlightenment through alternative means.

In the original timeline, the Undying Emperor did train them, but he wasn't willing to invest heavily. After all, these seven were significantly weaker than Ning Fei, let alone the Undying Emperor himself. With such a large gap, the Undying Emperor naturally wouldn't expend too much effort.

But this life was completely different. The Immortal Emperor spared no effort in nurturing the seven of them. He not only baptized them with his own Phoenix True Blood, transforming them completely, but also personally deduced scriptures for them and perfected their Dao fruits. Furthermore, they could even immerse themselves in the Immortal Emperor's library, reading and researching ancient scriptures and supernatural techniques from most of the mythological era.

To consolidate their achievements, the Immortal Emperor also set up various grand formations to assist the seven divine generals in their cultivation, allowing them to advance further under all kinds of trials.

Under the tutelage of the Undying Emperor, these seven gods made further progress in the nearly 20,000 years of these two lifetimes, achieving a unique path to enlightenment that they could never have accomplished on their own, and this was not even their initial stage. But this was basically their limit.

Therefore, the Immortal Emperor sealed the seven near-death generals within the divine source, and also sealed each of them with a celestial elixir refined from the elixir of immortality. This subtly transformed their physiques and strengthened their essence. When the Immortal Emperor awakens them, they will be able to live a third life, becoming even more powerful.

Although the Phoenix Maiden did not receive such rigorous training, she did receive assistance from both the Immortal Emperor and the Immortal Empress.

The Immortal Queen herself participated in the process of evolving her phoenix form, so she created a secret technique that allows races like the Blood Phoenix Clan, which replicate the phoenix form, and races like the Phoenix Maidens, whose phoenix bloodline has returned to its ancestral form, to adjust their bodies and become closer to the real phoenix.

As a disciple of the Supreme Celestial Venerable, the Undying Emperor specifically studied the Transformation Mystic Art created by Liang Yu in his first life, and combined the Phoenix Treasure Technique with his research on his own bloodline to create a secret technique that could enhance the Phoenix bloodline. This secret technique is somewhat similar to the secret technique for condensing dragon blood that circulates throughout the universe.

The Phoenix Maiden cultivated both of these secret arts simultaneously, successfully elevating her phoenix bloodline to a level rarely seen in the mortal world. Although she was still far inferior to the Undying Emperor, she possessed a unique celestial charm that was not found in the mortal realm.

In the original timeline, the Phoenix Queen became an immortal empress, and her strength reached the ninth level of the Quasi-Emperor realm. However, she could already be considered a Daoist on the verge of enlightenment, at least much stronger than the Emperor.

Currently, due to various factors, although she did not become an immortal empress because of her union with Ning Fei, she has actually gained more benefits. Therefore, she has also reached a different level of enlightenment, comparable to the Seven Divine Generals, and in terms of bloodline and physique, she is even stronger.

Even so, ten thousand years is her limit. However, she is still of phoenix blood, and even if she is not pure blood, she will still live longer than the Seven Divine Generals.

The Immortal Emperor, being a good person to the end, directly passed on the part about Nirvana from the Phoenix Treasure Technique to the Phoenix Maiden, and refined the Divine Phoenix Immortal Elixir into an immortal liquid, giving her a portion.

In this way, the Phoenix Maiden, sealed within the divine source, will slowly undergo a rebirth using the elixir of immortality as nourishment, and when she is reborn in the future, her bloodline power will be further enhanced.

As for Ning Fei, he obtained a White Tiger Immortal Fruit from Ying Shenxiao, with whom he had fought many times before, so he didn't need the Immortal Emperor to prepare it. However, in his cultivation over these two lifetimes, Ning Fei's cultivation level has continuously increased, reaching a level similar to that of Chuan Ying, Yuan Xiang Wang, and San Sheng Zhi Zun, who have achieved a further step after completely achieving enlightenment in an unconventional way.

After all, he was the kind of peerless genius who was destined to attain enlightenment in a different era, and through the accumulation of his two lifetimes, he had achieved astonishing accomplishments. Ning Fei and Huang Nu also sealed themselves up, preparing to emerge in the next life to attain enlightenment.

Time flies, and another thousand years have passed. Even with her powerful bloodline and various divine treasures to prolong her life, the Immortal Empress could no longer maintain it, and her lifespan came to an end in this life.

However, the fact that she could persist for a thousand years longer than Ning Fei is indeed enough to demonstrate the power of this Holy Spirit Phoenix.

Although the Immortal Empress's appearance remained unchanged, her hair had turned white, and she could no longer suppress the decaying death energy within her body.

Although the Immortal Emperor's vitality was still vigorous, at 21,000 years old, he had indeed begun to age considerably, and the marks of time had etched themselves upon his otherwise otherworldly handsome face. However, this aging did not diminish his charm in the slightest; on the contrary, it made him even more majestic, like an unparalleled god-emperor, the supreme heavenly emperor.

He sighed softly and said, "Will you seal yourself as a descendant of the future, or will you stay with me for a while longer?"

The Immortal Queen rolled her eyes at him and said, "Don't worry, I will only seal my title after I see our child truly born and personally raise him to adulthood."

Upon hearing this, the Immortal Emperor said, "Our child will not be born for several thousand years, that's quite a long wait. So, you should go and undergo Nirvana first. If you are too slow, I will delay his birth, and we will raise him together then."

The Immortal Queen said, "Then I'll go. Next time we meet, you won't have turned into a completely old man, will you?"

The Immortal Emperor laughed and said, "Then I'll live a second life and come back to call you. I guarantee that when you wake up, you'll see a young, spirited me. How about that?"

The Immortal Empress waved her hand and walked into the depths of Purple Mountain. There stood a huge, peculiar vessel forged from phoenix blood and crimson gold, shaped like a phoenix egg.

As the Undying Queen stirred her energy, the eggshell opened slightly, revealing the crimson-gold immortal liquid within, shimmering with five-colored divine light. This immortal liquid was refined from the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine fruit and other divine treasures, and it could amplify the effects of the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine.

The immortal empress stepped into it and began her rebirth.

The immortal emperor, now far away, sighed. His relatives and friends no longer appeared in the mortal world. He, the supreme god and unparalleled emperor, was now just a lonely figure.

Although it was merely a return to the time when he had just been born, and it wasn't a permanent farewell, it still stirred up some feelings of sorrow and longing in him. Perhaps he really was getting old.

(End of this chapter)