Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 637 Proving the Dao
After receiving the inheritance of the Underworld Lord, the Corpse God's already incredibly powerful cultivation became even more terrifying, and his progress in cultivation was so rapid that it shocked all the cultivators in the entire Underworld.

The Corpse God had already reached the level of a half-saint during his fifty years of cultivation, having crossed the barrier of the saint realm. He could become a saint at any time. Given his foundation, even advancing to the next level like this would be powerful and awe-inspiring enough.

However, after obtaining the Underworld Emperor Scripture, the Corpse God was greatly inspired and directly and with astonishing courage, he stopped his cultivation and used the Underworld Emperor Scripture to reshape his previous cultivation.

Although he didn't sever his cultivation and start over, it was almost as if he had completely rebuilt his cultivation from scratch, making various changes to every step of his previous cultivation to make it more perfect. This process took another fifty years.

Those highly skilled cultivators in the underworld knew that the Corpse God was deepening his foundation, but those in the underworld whose realms were not so profound and whose vision was not so broad did not have such insight. They thought that the Corpse God was like those short-lived geniuses in the past, powerful in the early stages but lacking in staying power.

This rumor grew increasingly rampant as those who had once competed with the Corpse God were promoted to saints one by one.

These comments only disappeared when the Corpse God finally completed his reconstruction and officially began his tribulation to become a saint. This was because the momentum of the sainthood tribulation triggered by the Corpse God far surpassed that of other underworld cultivators of the same level from the same period and even from countless millennia before and after.

Clearly, the Corpse God had been strengthening his foundation in order to achieve a powerful breakthrough.

After achieving sainthood, the Corpse God once again engaged in a great battle with the prodigies from various lineages of the Underworld who were vying with him, and won victory after victory with a clear advantage, making all his contemporaries in the Underworld truly convinced of his superiority.

The cultivators in the underworld began to sincerely hope that this Corpse God could attain enlightenment and become an emperor.

After all, whether it's the Underworld Lord, the Underworld Emperor, or the Three-Life Emperor, although their growth is related to the Underworld, they are ultimately not beings born from the Underworld itself.

The origin of the Corpse God is unknown. It is only known that he came from the chaotic ancient era before the mythological era. However, his predecessor did not have a very high level of cultivation. The Corpse God's current strength is partly due to his own talent, but more so because of the result of his many years of nurturing in the depths of the underworld.

In other words, the Corpse God can be considered a native life form of the Underworld. His ability to become an emperor naturally serves as an inspiration to all cultivators in the Underworld.

Carrying the hopes of most of the cultivators in the underworld, the Corpse God embarked on the ancient road through the starry sky.

The ancient starry road in the Netherworld was naturally established by the Netherworld Emperor, who became an Earth Immortal. After organizing the life forms in the Netherworld into an orderly civilization, he used his great supernatural powers to open up this ancient road, allowing the cultivators of the Netherworld to compete with the great geniuses of the human universe.

Although the Corpse God's ascension to sainthood over a hundred years was much slower than that of the top geniuses, after achieving sainthood, the Corpse God accumulated strength and began to advance at an extremely fast pace, so he did not fall behind by much.

After all, a fast cultivation speed does not necessarily mean great potential or high talent. Only the ability to maintain rapid progress while ensuring that one's own foundation is at its deepest can demonstrate high talent.

After completing its previous rebuilding and accumulation, the Corpse God was like this at the Saint stage: it maintained a profound foundation, but could also advance at an exaggerated speed.

Over the next 150 years, the Corpse God rose to the peak of the Saint King realm, traversing multiple ancient star paths and arriving before the ultimate ancient path.

Because of the unfathomable nature of the Underworld Emperor Scripture, although the Corpse God gained powerful assistance that made him more perfect, it also limited him, making it difficult for him to break free and forge his own path.

After all, the Netherworld Lord's realm was incredibly high, and the system constructed by his scriptures was not something easily transcended, not to mention that this scripture was also very suitable for the Corpse God's cultivation. Under these circumstances, although the Corpse God was not a prince, he also felt a similar predicament to that of a prince.

Fortunately, he was already a half-saint when he came into contact with the Underworld Emperor Scripture, and he already had a direction for his path, so he did not get completely trapped in it.

However, at this moment, he suddenly realized that although the Underworld Emperor Scripture seemed to be tailor-made for him, the higher-ups of the Underworld still insisted on following the procedures and even deliberately slowed down the progress, so that he only obtained this scripture when he was a half-saint. Perhaps it was because a master foresaw that the Underworld Emperor Scripture might limit him, so he waited until he had his own path before letting him comprehend this scripture.

Although the Corpse God didn't know whether the higher-ups of the Underworld had done this intentionally, he had already entered the forbidden realm and was only one step away from becoming a Great Sage. The restrictions that the Underworld Emperor Scripture might have placed on him had been minimized to the greatest extent possible. Therefore, he didn't delve too deeply into it and instead focused on his cultivation.

Because the underworld was far away, and the Corpse God would arrive at the Ultimate Ancient Road a little later, he did not turn back. Instead, he cultivated in front of the Ultimate Ancient Road and eventually became a Great Sage at the age of 260.

Even after the opening of the ultimate ancient road, the Corpse God still exuded a powerful sense of oppression, causing countless geniuses to submit to him.

Over the next 340 years, the Corpse God defeated most of the prodigies and became a quasi-emperor.

The reason why the Corpse God's cultivation speed slowed down in the Great Sage Realm was because he still needed to fully master the Underworld Emperor Scripture that he had comprehended, which limited his cultivation progress.

However, through his cultivation on the ultimate ancient path, he finally perfectly integrated some of the profound mysteries of the Underworld Emperor Scripture into his own Dao, transforming them into nourishment rather than shackles. Thus, he successfully advanced to the Quasi-Emperor level and demonstrated even greater strength.

In the following four hundred years, the Corpse God made rapid progress, with almost no slowdown, and directly broke through to the seventh level of Quasi-Emperor.

Reaching this level at the age of one thousand, while not among the fastest, is certainly very fast.

The Corpse God, who had been undefeated on the Ultimate Ancient Road, returned to the Underworld. It was at this moment that he sensed the pulse of the Underworld itself and comprehended its laws, namely the Underworld Scripture.

Although this scripture can only be deeply mastered by those who have attained enlightenment or those who have achieved enlightenment in other ways, the Corpse God is a seed that has been nurtured in this Netherworld for countless years. It is naturally close to this place, and both the Netherworld Lord and the Netherworld Emperor have promoted the further growth of the Corpse God with the contents of the Netherworld Scripture.

Therefore, although the Corpse God is only at the seventh level of Quasi-Emperor, he can still grasp some of the mysteries.

The Corpse God, who had originally been stuck in a bottleneck and needed a long time to accumulate experience, benefited greatly from this and began to progress again.

Throughout this process, the Underworld Emperor did not directly appear, but subtly derived the part of the Underworld Scripture that was more useful to the Corpse God, allowing him to comprehend its mysteries.

Finally, when the Corpse God was 1,700 years old, he successfully completed his accumulation and triggered the Great Tribulation of Enlightenment.

(End of this chapter)