Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 647 Yuanshi's Assistance
The Corpse Emperor had actually anticipated this situation. Whether it was the Underworld Lord's desire to rely on the Reincarnation Seal to transform and ultimately merge back to oneness to find his true self, or the Spirit Treasure Heavenly Lord's dismantling of the Reincarnation Seal to reassemble the fragments of his primordial spirit into his true self to complete his transformation, the Reincarnation Seal must contain fragments of his primordial spirit from his previous life.

Therefore, after the Reincarnation Seal is decomposed, these fragments of the primordial spirit will naturally dissipate and enter the Corpse Emperor's body, and may even merge with his primordial spirit.

However, the Corpse Emperor's body comes from a distant and unknown chaotic ancient era, and its cultivation is not that profound. Theoretically speaking, even if there are fragments of the primordial spirit from the previous life in it, it should not be able to affect the Corpse Emperor much, and it should be easy to eliminate them.

Therefore, the Corpse Emperor originally planned to use his own primordial spirit light to directly obliterate these fragments after they appeared, in order to preserve his complete true self.

Moreover, just in case, the Corpse Emperor had already secretly prepared the Salvation Scripture, which could suppress all corpse calamities, and was ready to recite the scripture at any time. In case of an accident, he would use the power of the Salvation Scripture to suppress the fragments of the primordial spirit or other special forces in the Reincarnation Seal.

Based on these preparations, the Corpse King should not have encountered any accidents that would cause problems with his condition.

But just as the Corpse King had overcome what he considered the most difficult step—disintegrating the Reincarnation Seal without affecting his own condition—an unexpected event still occurred.

Perhaps due to the special nature of the Reincarnation Seal, the fragments of the primordial spirit within it easily pierced through the Corpse Emperor's preemptively activated primordial spirit power and merged with his primordial spirit. The speed was so fast that the Corpse Emperor didn't even have time to activate the power of the Salvation Scripture to suppress it.

In a daze, the Corpse King seemed to fall into a dream. He saw countless bizarre and strange scenes and felt scenes of life and death, but these things were all extremely chaotic and completely unsystematic.

Furthermore, these images do not seem to originate from a single person; they are a mixture of memories from countless other lives.

Clearly, his predecessor was buried deep in the underworld, and during the long years that he spent with countless corpses and formed the reincarnation seal, the fragments of the primordial spirit left in other corpses also accumulated in his body.

Now, he has broken the Samsara Seal and is no longer facing the consciousness of the body's predecessor, but also the fragments of consciousness left behind by countless others who were buried with him.

Under the impact of such a massive and chaotic torrent of primordial spirit fragments, even the Corpse Emperor, as the ruler of the world, was unable to defend against it.

Of course, this is mainly because they have existed in the same body for countless years and have an extremely close and special connection with each other. Therefore, the Corpse Emperor's primordial spirit power was unable to stop it for a while, and thus his primordial spirit was invaded.

Under this impact, the Corpse King gradually found it increasingly difficult to maintain his composure. The countless bizarre and varied scenes mixed together, like a scene of reincarnation, were trying to suck him in and make him completely sink into oblivion.

At first, he felt only repulsion when he saw these images. He didn't want to understand any of it, to make himself no longer pure, no longer the Corpse King.

Ever since the Corpse King gained self-awareness, he has never wanted to be someone's next life, but rather a completely new life.

This is not difficult for others, after all, no one in the human universe has ever been able to truly prove the existence of reincarnation, and even similar flowers will not be exactly the same.

But it's different for the Corpse King. He was indeed reborn from another's corpse. In a way, he was someone's reincarnation, but he absolutely did not want that.

That's why the Corpse Emperor chose to do so even knowing that dismantling the Reincarnation Seal would be dangerous and would result in the loss of many secrets. But now, he clearly underestimated the difficulty of the Reincarnation Seal, thus plunging himself into a perilous situation and beginning to lose himself.

If this continues, either the Corpse Emperor will eventually merge with these fragments of primordial spirit, forming a mentally unstable madman, or the Corpse Emperor will successfully maintain his self-preservation, erasing all other consciousnesses over the long years and becoming the sole ruler.

But in doing so, he doesn't know how much time he'll spend, and he might not even succeed before his lifespan ends. At that point, everything will simply perish and vanish.

Is this really the end? The Corpse King was filled with resentment, but he was powerless to do anything about it.

But at that moment, a beam of celestial light suddenly shone from the Corpse Emperor's altar, and a loud shout, like a thunderclap, rang out beside the Corpse Emperor's primordial spirit, which was about to completely sink into oblivion: "Corpse Emperor, return to your soul!"

The voice was like a morning bell and evening drum, its rolling sound resonating so powerfully that it shook even the Corpse Emperor's extremely sturdy body.

The Corpse King was jolted awake by these consciousnesses, and his dormant primordial spirit suddenly awoke. He quickly recited the Scripture of Salvation and condensed his primordial spirit to the maximum extent, finally managing to preserve himself.

Although these consciousnesses are numerous and powerful, and are also blessed with the divine power of the Reincarnation Seal, they are still far from being as powerful as the Corpse Emperor.

They could catch the Corpse King off guard by using their shared origins to overwhelm his consciousness, making it difficult for him to maintain his self-control. However, once he adjusted his state and responded correctly, they would be helpless.

Upon regaining full consciousness, the Corpse King broke out in a cold sweat and immediately exclaimed, "Homage to the Primordial Heavenly Venerable!"

That loud shout just now came from the immortal light left behind by the Primordial Celestial Venerable. Throughout his cultivation process of absorbing the corpse energy of the Undying Emperor and living out his second life, the immortal light left behind by the Primordial Celestial Venerable was as if it did not exist. Therefore, the Corpse Emperor thought that he had completed his cultivation because of him, so he did not trigger the Primordial Celestial Venerable's methods.

But now it seems that Yuanshi Tianzun is far more terrifying than he imagined. With just one meeting, Yuanshi Tianzun predicted the path he would take in the future and left behind this method in advance, ultimately helping him overcome this final hurdle.

This made the Corpse King feel grateful, but at the same time, he once again felt that gap that was somewhat despairing.

The Corpse Emperor silently shook his head, clearing his mind of distractions, and began to concentrate on suppressing the torrent of consciousness formed by the fusion of the primordial spirit fragments from countless ancient corpses.

During this process, the divine energy released after the Reincarnation Seal was destroyed began to continuously merge into his body, giving him renewed vitality and propelling him toward living out his next life.

Originally, the Corpse Emperor intended to annihilate all the fragments of primordial spirit from the Reincarnation Seal. However, after truly gaining control, he did not choose to do so. Instead, he integrated them into his own cultivation, strengthening his own primordial spirit while tempering his Dao heart.

Moreover, although these fragments of primordial spirit were extremely incomplete and mixed together in a chaotic manner, the Corpse Emperor could still obtain some strange information from various eras from them.

(End of this chapter)