Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 636 Corpse God
Since the ascension of the Celestial Venerable of the Primordial Beginning, the human universe has once again been plunged into a state of turbulent undercurrents.

Although the Celestial Venerable Shengxuan who had previously attained enlightenment came from the Immortal Mausoleum, she was still a human and recognized the human race system. She personally went to Mount Tai to pay homage to the Human Emperor Seal left by the Taiyin Human Emperor. Therefore, her actions naturally made the human race's position more stable and harder to shake.

Although the Immortal Tomb World had many contacts with the human universe, it had not yet revealed its true potential. However, because of the Celestial Venerable Shengxuan, it became a pivotal region in the human universe.

Since the visit of the Taiyin Human Emperor, the Immortal Tomb World has always stood on the side of the human race. With the promotion of the Shengxuan Heavenly Venerable, this relationship has become even closer.

Therefore, although the human race tended to be conservative and did not expand outwards, it still maintained an unshakeable position, like an indestructible steel fortress.

However, other ancient races launched a series of wars, fighting each other for various reasons. After all, those ancient races did not have such a stable situation and deep foundation. Even a major race like the Light God Clan could only protect itself and could not suppress or subdue the other races.

After ten thousand years of this, the aura of the Great Dao of the Celestial Venerable Shengxuan dissipated, which means that another era of great contention is about to begin.

Compared to the other celestial realms, the Netherworld's reputation is naturally more widespread. This is partly because the Netherworld has long been deeply ingrained in people's minds, leaving behind many legends throughout the universe, and partly because the Three-Life Emperor's joining the Netherworld has allowed for deeper interaction between the Netherworld and the human universe.

In the past, because the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth was not manifest, the Underworld, like the Immortal Mausoleum, had almost no contact with the outside world and remained in seclusion for a period of time.

Only after the great changes in the world did the underworld begin to communicate with the human world again.

However, the races in the Underworld are extremely complex, unlike the Immortal Tomb where one can rely on the power of the Taiyin Emperor and the human race. Therefore, the Underworld is still not very conspicuous.

However, in terms of foundation, the Underworld is actually more profound than the other three Earthly Immortal Realms. After all, the Underworld was founded by the Underworld Lord, and many supreme beings resided there during its existence. Although they have all been purged, their remaining legacy is still quite rich.

Even in the new underworld of this era, which has sealed away the past, there is still the current King of the Underworld, who has inherited the title of Lord of the Underworld, and various inheritances and methods left by the Three Lives King who joined later.

Moreover, even disregarding all of that, the Underworld still has four trump cards: a near-perfect ancient corpse with spiritual power left behind by the Underworld Lord, and three divine embryos that were conceived in the source and then enlightened by the Underworld Lord.

All four of them possess extraordinary potential, and as soon as they are born, they will surely become the most dazzling geniuses in the universe, striving for the supreme position of the Dao Prover.

Previously, the Underworld Emperor had not allowed them to be born, firstly because he was worried that the past of the Underworld would subject them to some bad treatment, and secondly because these four seeds had not yet reached their most perfect state.

In the lifetime of the Taiyin Human Emperor who attained enlightenment, the ancient corpse with spiritual powers that had been studied by the Underworld Lord reached its most perfect state. Apart from the fact that its predecessor was not an enlightened being from the Chaotic Ancient Era, this ancient corpse was almost identical to the Underworld Lord when he had just awakened his spiritual powers.

Such a perfectly formed ancient corpse with the Reincarnation Seal would naturally be an extraordinary genius.

However, when deciding whether to bring it into the world, the Underworld Emperor hesitated for a moment. He tried to deduce the prodigy of that previous life and unexpectedly discovered that the Taiyin Human Emperor and the Wuji Heavenly Venerable had intricate connections. Therefore, he decisively abandoned the idea of ​​bringing the ancient corpse into the world and allowed it to remain in slumber.

Of course, the Underworld Emperor made this decision not because he was deliberately making way for the Taiyin Human Emperor, whom the Boundless Supreme Celestial Venerable had chosen, but because he was certain that anyone favored by the Boundless Supreme Celestial Venerable must be an extraordinary genius. Even if this ancient corpse possessed true potential for enlightenment, it would likely be unable to compete with him. The final result was exactly as he predicted: the Beast God, who truly possessed the potential for enlightenment, was forcefully suppressed by the Taiyin Human Emperor. This era belonged to the Human Emperor, and to the human race.

After the Human Emperor disappeared, he also wanted to bring this ancient corpse out of the world, but then he sensed the child born in the Immortal Tomb.

Since it concerned the Celestial Venerable of Immortality's exploration of the future path, the Underworld Emperor hesitated repeatedly, but still suppressed the ancient corpse once again, preventing it from being born.

After all, the Celestial Venerable of Longevity is now the leader of the Earth Immortals. If he can discover any results, it will benefit all of them, the Earth Immortals.

Moreover, this special physique, born in accordance with the laws of the Immortal Tomb, is extremely rare and hard to come by. It's unknown how long it will be before the next one appears, but it doesn't matter much when this ancient corpse is born.

But in this lifetime after the ascension of the Celestial Venerable Shengxuan, the Underworld Emperor finally discovered no further interfering factors. So he awakened this ancient, spirit-connected corpse and allowed it to be born in this lifetime.

This ancient corpse was once an important experimental subject of the Underworld Lord, and also an important research object that other supreme beings in the Underworld regarded as a treasure.

But now, he is merely a supreme seed cultivated by the underworld.

The Underworld Emperor did not directly teach him, but instead entrusted him to the Corpse God lineage in the Underworld for training.

As Hades had predicted, this ancient corpse, though not displaying overwhelming strength upon its emergence, possessed astonishing talent.

Since he began his cultivation, this ancient corpse with spiritual powers has displayed extraordinary intelligence. He was able to quickly master the scriptures and supernatural abilities circulating in the underworld from various enlightened beings, making rapid progress on his cultivation path. Soon, he overpowered all others, becoming the core seed of the Corpse God lineage, and ultimately adopted Corpse God as his name.

As the Corpse God began his continuous cultivation and battles, everyone in the Underworld discovered that although the Corpse God's predecessor was not a powerful cultivator, the countless years he had been buried deep in the Netherworld had allowed him to accumulate an unimaginably terrifying amount of corpse energy within his body. Although he could not yet freely utilize it, it was already astonishing.

Moreover, the Corpse God's physique is also incredibly powerful. The Underworld nurtures many ancient corpses, each with unique physiques and bloodlines; furthermore, many of the Underworld's various tribes are renowned for their physical strength.

But before the Corpse God, their physical strength was far inferior, completely incomparable. Perhaps only physiques of the level of the Undying Golden Body or the Heavenly Overlord Body could rival his physical strength.

With these various talents, the Corpse God rose rapidly. Before becoming a saint, he had already defeated all the prodigies of all the tribes in the Underworld, becoming the number one among the younger generation in the Underworld at that time.

It was at this moment that he finally learned one of the supreme inheritances of the Underworld, the Underworld Emperor Scripture. Of course, it was the Underworld Emperor Scripture of the first Underworld Emperor, the Underworld Venerable, not the scripture of the current second-generation Underworld Emperor.

After all, the Corpse God's physique is clearly more suited to studying the scriptures of the Underworld Lord.

(End of this chapter)