Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 652 The Battle of Two Heroes
Du Mu's fleeting brilliance brought a sense of relief to all the geniuses of his time, including the human geniuses, such as the one with the indestructible golden body and the Heavenly Tyrant Body.

Faced with Du Mu, whose cultivation speed was the fastest in history, they almost lost their Dao heart and their confidence to compete with him.

Therefore, after Du Mu became a Great Sage, their ambition was largely worn down. Although not many people stopped cultivating because of this, the atmosphere of courageous and diligent progress, like a thousand troops crossing a single-plank bridge, was completely gone.

Therefore, their cultivation speed has slowed down considerably, and they are advancing slowly in a more steady and methodical manner.

This series of changes even resulted in only a few dozen people entering the ultimate ancient road for trials in this generation.

However, as time passed, Du Mu failed to break through to become a Quasi-Emperor for hundreds of years. This rekindled the hopes of these once-disheartened prodigies, who then threw themselves into cultivation with even greater enthusiasm, embarking on a period of rapid growth with courage and diligence.

Although they had missed the ultimate ancient path, their fighting spirit remained high, and they began to make the struggle for the position of Dao Proof their ultimate goal once again.

However, Du Mu's existence still influenced all the geniuses of this era. They basically stopped pursuing the speed of cultivation and instead focused more on their own foundation, striving to be the most stable and strongest, rather than the fastest.

Thus, when these prodigies reached around a thousand years old, Du Mu still hadn't made any breakthroughs and disappeared from the scene, completely withdrawing from the historical stage.

At this point, they could finally be completely certain that the prodigy of the divine race, who inspired despair, had probably exhausted his potential and no longer had the ability to compete with them.

Because during their years of cultivation, the most outstanding among them have successfully become quasi-emperors, surpassing Du Mu, who was far ahead of them before and whose shadow they could not even see.

Thus, the dozen or so most outstanding geniuses among this group of prodigies who achieved the quasi-emperor level began a new round of competition.

Among this group of people, Gu Qun, with his indestructible golden body, and Cang Yuan, with his awe-inspiring physique, naturally stood out and became the two brightest new stars.

However, they were not seen as competitors by other prodigies, but rather as whetstones.

After all, no matter how powerful they are, it would be incredibly difficult for them to restore the broken pathways in their bodies. They have no chance of competing with me to become the one who proves my Dao.

Gu Qun and Cang Yuan were not convinced by this. They were not satisfied with becoming the second most powerful person in the world to challenge the current emperor. Instead, they wanted to continue their own path and try to create a miracle that neither of their ancestors had been able to achieve.

Even if it doesn't succeed, it's still worthwhile to make a major breakthrough in continuing one's own broken path and find a breakthrough point for future generations.

With a breakthrough, even if they themselves fail, future generations may be able to use it to further improve the lineage, ultimately allowing the Undying Golden Body lineage and the Heavenly Tyrant Body lineage to completely overcome their limitations.

Their individual performances, from the very beginning until now, have surpassed those of the Great Perfection Undying Golden Body and Great Perfection Heavenly Tyrant Body that have ever been born in their clans. Therefore, what those in the past could not do, they, with their higher talent and stronger abilities, must try to do—to make the impossible possible.

This is not only their personal ambition, but also the shared aspiration of countless generations of cultivators in the past, including the Undying Holy Emperor, the Heavenly Tyrant Emperor, and even the Undying Golden Body lineage and the Heavenly Tyrant Body lineage.

Under these circumstances, these prodigies continuously improved and broke through barriers, steadily advancing towards countless positions of power as emperors of their time. Finally, at the age of 1,500, Gu Qun and Cang Yuan reached the eighth level of Quasi-Emperor. This pace seemed somewhat slow, precisely because of Du Mu's influence. However, the outcome of this lifetime should be decided now.

On this day, Cang Yuan stood in the void, challenging seven other prodigies who had also reached the eighth level of Quasi-Emperor, engaging in a life-or-death battle with them. Cang Yuan won battle after battle, killing three and injuring four of his opponents, truly establishing his invincible reputation.

After all, the other seven quasi-emperors at the eighth level were among the most talented individuals of this generation. The fact that Cangyuan could defeat them all naturally meant that his superior talent was unmatched by these individuals.

Through this series of battles, Cangyuan successfully transcended his tribulation and became a quasi-ninth-level being, achieving mastery of his domineering physique in an instant, thus becoming an invincible figure in the human world.

The reason Cangyuan chose to challenge them and launch the final battle when he was at the eighth level of Quasi-Emperor was because the Overlord Body would give him more combat power than a normal Quasi-Ninth level due to the achievement of his physical constitution.

If he doesn't determine the outcome before the eighth level of Quasi-Emperor, then those from the first to the ninth level are simply not qualified to fight him. They will only be able to have an equal battle after they have completed the accumulation for their final leap or achieved initial alternative Dao. But that would take an unknown amount of time.

The reason why Cangyuan chose to fight to the death at this time to determine the winner was actually because he did not regard these people as his biggest opponents.

In his view, Gu Qun, who possessed an indestructible golden body, was his greatest rival.

Unlike Cangyuan's arrogance, Gu Qun, who possesses an indestructible golden body, is quite reserved and doesn't seek the limelight. Therefore, his reputation is considerably less than Cangyuan's.

However, relying on the innate clash between his own Heavenly Tyrant Body and Gu Qun's Undying Golden Body, Cang Yuan could see that this Undying Golden Body was far more powerful than anyone imagined, and even he himself was not confident that he could defeat the opponent.

Therefore, Cangyuan launched this battle because it was afraid of falling behind Guqun and wanted to accelerate its accumulation.

After that, Cangyuan formally challenged Guqun, hoping that they could determine the true number one person of this era.

Gu Qun did not refuse, but he did not agree on the spot either. He proposed that they should take the final battle after they had gone a step further, achieved the Great Perfection of their physical constitution, and completely attained enlightenment in a different way, that is, after they had touched the broken circuit of their physical constitution, so as to conduct further research on the broken circuit of their own physical constitution.

Cangyuan naturally accepted this offer with pleasure.

And so time began to fly by again, until another 1,500 years had passed, and the three-thousand-year-old Guqun and Cangyuan had both reached this state of being unable to advance any further.

During this period, Cangyuan attempted to trigger the Great Tribulation of Proving the Dao multiple times, but he was never able to overcome it, only becoming stronger. Gu Qun, although he tried less often, also attempted it more than once, and naturally, he failed as well.

Thus, the two engaged in a fierce battle in the starry sky, both to determine who was the number one person at the time and who was truly invincible under the stars, and to challenge their own path to survival.

After a bloody battle where he risked his life, Gu Qun finally emerged victorious and became the invincible one of his generation.

(End of this chapter)