Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 655 Past Causes and Effects

After attaining enlightenment, the Star Emperor stood in the starry sky, constantly sensing the ancient stars in the human universe where divine essence still existed, through his connection with the Heavenly Heart Mark and the myriad paths of the universe that jointly protected his Dao, and further perfecting his Dao.

This process also caused vast swathes of stars in the human universe to resonate with the Star Emperor, transforming the dark and desolate cosmic sky into a radiant divine kingdom.

However, the Star Emperor soon stopped cultivating. His path was already largely complete before he even attained enlightenment; this process was merely a further refinement of the minor details.

Moreover, this is not something that can be accomplished overnight; it requires a much longer period of time and meticulous on-site investigation to achieve perfection. Clearly, this is not the time to undertake this practice.

The Star Emperor's cultivation speed has been slow over the years. Firstly, he does not have a strong bloodline or physique, and his innate talent is average. Only his comprehension is relatively strong. Secondly, the scriptures he cultivates are methods that require slow and meticulous work, so they cannot be fast.

From the very beginning of his cultivation, Star Emperor understood that with his physique and bloodline, he could not possibly match the cultivation speed of other geniuses. Forcing himself to cultivate quickly would only cause his already limited potential to be exhausted prematurely, and in the end, he would not be able to achieve even the status of a Quasi-Emperor, let alone attain the Dao.

The Star Emperor himself was unwilling to remain a mediocre cultivator, confined to a corner of the world. Although he didn't have much ambition, he wanted to explore a wider world and comprehend a more profound Dao, which required him to become a Dao prover in this life.

Therefore, he chose to take a huge gamble. He bet that during his cultivation in the five secret realms, he could integrate the two ancient scriptures he possessed, forge his own path, lay the strongest and most solid foundation for his Dao, and ultimately elevate his potential to an even more terrifying level in order to compete for the position of Dao Proof.

Originally, he hadn't placed his hopes on this life, but rather on the future. If he didn't succeed, he would simply turn into dust, and there would be nothing more to say. But if he truly achieved something, he would declare himself a successor and choose another era to prove his Dao.

But no one expected that Du Mu's fleeting success and the successive rise of Gu Qun and Cang Yuan would provide him with the most suitable environment for cultivation. He no longer needed to worry about someone proving the Dao first and cutting off his path, but truly had the opportunity to strike back.

After five thousand years of arduous cultivation, the Star Emperor finally achieved great things and, through accumulated experience, leaped to become a saint. He then left his homeland. At that time, he was single-mindedly focused on cultivation, hoping to achieve a high enough level of attainment before the next emperor appeared, making it easier to prove himself in future generations. He never imagined things would turn out this way.

Gu Qun and Cang Yuan defeated all the geniuses who were qualified to compete for the position of Dao Prover. However, the geniuses who emerged later were not as amazing as they were at the beginning of this era. As a result, Xing Huang was surprised to find that he had inexplicably become the person with the best chance of successfully proving the Dao in this era.

Although he was amazed by his good fortune, the Star Emperor did not slack off in the slightest. Instead, he persevered and finally succeeded in attaining enlightenment, completing a crucial step on his path of cultivation.

The Star Emperor did not choose to return to his homeland, nor did he choose to meet Gu Qun and Cang Yuan, the two powerful figures who had unintentionally paved the way for him. Instead, he went straight into the depths of the starry sky and arrived at a star field.

His treasure for attaining enlightenment was a Dao diagram engraved with the stars of the heavens. Countless star shapes emitted a faint starlight, echoing the stars in the universe. Most stars in the human universe corresponded to it one by one, creating a profound resonance.

However, the star field that the Star Emperor arrived in was completely different from what was depicted in his Dao Diagram. In his Dao Diagram, this was a sea of ​​stars formed by countless stars, with a wondrous world being born at its center.

In reality, however, the center of this star system is a massive ancient planet inhabited by life.

The Star Emperor sighed softly, "This place is indeed vastly different from what I remember it from the past." "So, do you think it's gotten better or worse?"

A voice came from behind the Star Emperor, which shocked him greatly, but he remained calm and continued, "I don't know either. Maybe it has gotten better. After all, I have never seen what the Heavenly River Divine Realm was like back then, but I have seen this huge ancient life star growing on its ruins."

The person who spoke came to his side and said, "Hundreds of thousands of years have passed, and I never thought that someone from your lineage would actually reach this point."

The Star Emperor finally saw the details of the figure, which shocked him even more. He cupped his hands and said, "Greetings, Great Heavenly Venerable."

This person, who looks so lifelike and almost indistinguishable from a real living being, is actually just a phantom manifested from divine thought.

Immediately after attaining enlightenment, Liang Yu killed the Cangming Supreme and Yuanchen Supreme who had come to besiege him in the Heavenly River Divine Realm, and then came to the Heavenly River Divine Realm to demand an explanation. However, at that time, only the Cangshan Supreme, who was about to pass away and had not yet launched the Dark Turmoil, remained. Therefore, he made an exception and allowed the Cangshan Supreme to take away some of his descendants who had a clean lineage.

He used his great supernatural powers to dismantle the Heavenly River Divine Realm, which had been created under human intervention, and restored it to its normal state, thus giving birth to this enormous ancient life-bearing star.

To prevent the younger generation taken away by the Supreme Being of Cangshan from causing trouble, Liang Yu made a killing intention as a precaution.

The Star Emperor is a descendant of those who were taken away by the Cangshan Supreme. That's why he mastered two ancient scriptures from the Cangshan Supreme and the Yuanchen Supreme as soon as he started cultivating. He spent five thousand years combining the two ancient scriptures to create the prototype of his own Star Emperor Scripture, and completely transformed himself, making his potential far greater than before.

Now that he has successfully attained enlightenment, he has returned to the place where the Heavenly River Divine Realm once was. Liang Yu's murderous intent was thus triggered, and he broke through the sky from Wuji Immortal Mountain and descended before the Star Emperor.

The Supreme Being of Cangshan did not dare to pass on the truth of what happened back then. He did not even dare to let his descendants openly possess his own supreme divine weapon. Instead, he imposed many restrictions on it in order to prevent his descendants from causing any trouble that would lead to the complete extinction of the lineage.

Over the long years, these descendants have been assimilated and have almost completely lost all traces of their past. Compared with other races in the universe, they are no different from each other except for a few ancient scriptures.

The Star Emperor knew these things because after becoming a saint, his accumulated potential triggered the supreme divine weapon of the Azure Mountain Supreme, and he was informed of all this during his continuous progress. It was also through this process that he learned of the image of the Limitless Heavenly Venerable.

The reason why the Star Emperor's Zhou Tian Star Chart has the Heavenly River Divine Realm is because many of these stellar mysteries are copied from the work of Yuan Chen Supreme. When the Heavenly River Divine Realm collapsed, he had already died.

Although the Star Emperor had no particular thoughts about this past cause and effect, he was, after all, a successor of the Yuan Chen Supreme and the Cang Shan Supreme. It was only right and proper for him to come and see this long-vanished place, pay homage to the two Supremes, and make a final resolution to this cause and effect.

Of course, the appearance of the Great Celestial Venerable Wuji's murderous intent was something he had never expected.

(End of this chapter)