Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 625 The Resurrection of Yuanshi Tianzun
Just as the Taiyin Human Emperor was preparing for his transformation, a strange aura flashed in a corner of the human universe.

Because it was sealed by layers of outer field arrays and the array patterns that were faintly transforming into a world cauldron, only a trace of extremely weak, yet incredibly powerful aura leaked out.

Within these tight layers of sealing, serving as all the array patterns and field platforms is a divine mountain, shrouded in celestial energy and unlike anything in the mortal world, representing the origin of the universe.

If any cultivator who has seen the Kunlun Immortal Mountain were to see this, they would be astonished as to why this immortal mountain is so similar to the Kunlun Immortal Mountain.

Clearly, this sacred mountain, heavily sealed by countless fields and array patterns, is the Kunlun Sacred Realm, the Daoist temple of the Primordial Celestial Venerable. The various methods used to seal this place were precisely those he and the Limitless Celestial Venerable had devised to prevent his failed transformation from bringing a catastrophe to the human universe.

The fact that the blockade here is now beginning to falter suggests only one possibility: that the Primordial Celestial Venerable has been resurrected.

Within the Kunlun Immortal Mountain, the Primordial Celestial Venerable opened his eyes, revealing a terrifying aura powerful enough to shatter the Great Dao of the human universe.

After more than two hundred thousand years, Yuanshi Tianzun finally awoke from his slumber, ending his long period of transformation and successfully merging his four Great Dao Fruits into one, thus living out his eighth incarnation. This period of transformation was clearly much longer than he had anticipated.

Originally, he wanted to control himself to complete this transformation within tens of thousands of years in order to catch up with the progress of the Boundless Heavenly Venerable, but now it seems that he is still far behind.

At first, the process of using the Chaos Dao Fruit to contain the other three Dao Fruits went smoothly, and it was successful in just 100,000 years. However, it was not so easy to evolve the fused Dao Fruit into the state most suitable for itself.

It took Yuanshi Tianzun seventy to eighty thousand years of continuous adjustments to refine his final Dao fruit into shape, and then another thirty to forty thousand years to fully digest it and complete the transformation of himself.

Therefore, only at this point could he be considered to have completely completed his reversal of fortune.

He has now integrated all four Dao Fruits into one, obtaining an unprecedented new Dao Fruit, and has also undergone earth-shattering changes.

However, unlike Liang Yu, who had just lived through his eighth life and already possessed the body of a half-step immortal in the mortal realm, Yuanshi Tianzun, although only a hair's breadth away from becoming an immortal in the mortal realm, was still within the realm of humanity and had not yet crossed the barrier between immortals and mortals.

Of course, Yuanshi Tianzun was absolutely confident that he could break through this barrier in this lifetime, but he didn't know when he would truly achieve perfection. After all, through seven rebirths in reverse, he had almost grasped the essence of a mortal immortal.

At this time, Yuanshi Tianzun was about 640,000 years old, which was 100,000 years longer than the 540,000 years it took Liang Yu to truly become a mortal immortal. However, he still could not catch up with Liang Yu in terms of progress and could not remain unaffected by the passage of time.

This left Yuanshi Tianzun somewhat frustrated. He had always been proud and ambitious, hoping to be the strongest in the mortal realm, but now it seemed that the title of Great Heavenly Venerable was indeed well-deserved and unshakeable.

However, the Primordial Celestial Lord didn't take this matter too seriously. After all, cultivation speed doesn't represent combat strength, nor does it represent ultimate achievement; he would still have many opportunities to make up for this gap in the future.

After becoming Immortals of the Mortal Realm, they will no longer face the danger of lifespan constraints and will truly achieve immortality. It is foreseeable that in future cultivation, it will be very normal for each realm to require hundreds of thousands or even millions of hours of arduous practice. Under an infinitely extended timeline, these behind-the-line times will naturally begin to become insignificant.

The Primordial Celestial Venerable stretched out his body, waving away the seals outside the Kunlun Sacred Realm. He then connected his own energy with the Kunlun Sacred Realm, drawing upon its origin to undergo another evolution. This process caused rays of celestial light to shimmer at the core of the Kunlun Sacred Realm.

When Yuanshi Tianzun extracted the Creation Dao Fruit from the Myriad Things Origin Cauldron, it directly caused this immortal artifact to revert to its original form, becoming a mere artifact embryo. However, due to the extraordinary properties of this green copper, the Myriad Things Origin Cauldron still retained a large amount of divine energy, which could still support its refinement into a powerful artifact.

Therefore, before beginning his transformation, the Primordial Celestial Venerable sealed the Cauldron of All Things back into the Kunlun Sacred Realm to nurture it, hoping to deal with it in the future.

Unexpectedly, during the long years of Yuanshi Tianzun's transformation, the Myriad Origin Cauldron, which he had sealed in the core of Kunlun Sacred Realm, began to evolve naturally, just like a celestial bell, and gradually became a new celestial artifact.

This is naturally because the Kunlun Sacred Realm resonates with the transformation process of the Primordial Celestial Venerable, and their energies interact, ultimately causing the World Cauldron Formation, which the Primordial Celestial Venerable arranged with the Kunlun Sacred Realm as its core, to also affect the precious cauldron that was being nurtured at the core of the Kunlun Sacred Realm when it was in operation.

Although the Primordial Celestial Venerable set up this grand formation to help himself complete the fusion of his Dao Fruit, it unexpectedly also caused the cauldron to be refined and begin to evolve. Even with only a tiny bit of residual power refining it, it was enough to make it continue to evolve.

Thus, over these long years of more than two hundred thousand years, although the Cauldron of All Things had not yet become a celestial artifact again, a new deity had been born within it and began to develop its own celestial laws. It could be said that the Cauldron of All Things was now an incomplete celestial artifact.

The deity newly born from the Origin of All Things still looks exactly like the Primordial Celestial Venerable, but its power is extremely mixed, combining the four Great Dao Fruits of the Primordial Celestial Venerable with the primordial laws from the Kunlun Sacred Realm.

After all, its birth was an unexpected event that the Primordial Celestial Venerable had not anticipated, so it could only do its best to absorb all the nutrients. This is also why it has not yet truly become a celestial artifact.

When Yuanshi Tianzun first awoke, he had already sensed the aura of this deity. Therefore, while the Kunlun Sacred Realm was evolving, he took the opportunity to refine this newly formed, unformed immortal artifact with his great divine power, condensing its scattered laws and aura into one.

It was this very refinement that allowed the laws within the Myriad Origin Cauldron to be completely unified, and thus a celestial artifact was born.

If the refining process continues, with the current strength of the Primordial Celestial Venerable, it would be easy for him to upgrade this precious cauldron further. However, it would be much more difficult to make it reach the level of a supreme immortal artifact. After all, this precious cauldron had been completely wiped clean and started anew along with the Primordial Celestial Venerable's progress.

The Primordial Celestial Venerable carefully examined the Cauldron of All Things and discovered that its spirit, largely born by accident and made of special materials, possessed extraordinary spirituality. Perhaps, this cauldron could grow into a special immortal artifact like the Immortal Bell or the Boundless Dao Stele.

The Primordial Celestial Lord, who originally intended to use the Myriad Origin Cauldron as his natal magic weapon again, did not further refine it. Instead, he severed the connection between the cauldron and himself.

(End of this chapter)