Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 667 Development
Originally, it might have taken the Blood Phoenix Emperor longer to attain enlightenment, but because he obtained the secret technique left by the Undying Emperor, he began to evolve his bloodline in the early and middle stages of his cultivation, greatly improving his foundation, which led to a significant increase in his progress.

After all, as the divine son of the Blood Phoenix Clan, which was once among the top clans in the universe, it would take him a lot of time to further improve the clan's inherited secret techniques and eventually reach a state where he could fully develop his own bloodline. This required a bit of luck and inspiration.

However, the Undying Emperor's secret technique greatly accelerated this process, allowing the Blood Phoenix Emperor to fully develop his bloodline power at a very early stage. In his subsequent cultivation, he further began to sublimate his bloodline.

The opponents he faced were at most similar to him, and they would have had a hard time defeating him in normal competition. Now that the Blood Phoenix Emperor was improving at an even faster pace, they were naturally defeated by the Blood Phoenix Emperor ahead of time.

Although the lack of sufficient opponents to push the Blood Phoenix Emperor to continue to unleash his potential and break through his limits caused his cultivation speed to slow down in the later stages, overall, he will still attain enlightenment faster than under normal circumstances.

Although the timing of attaining enlightenment is not absolutely related to the final achievement, attaining enlightenment early means a longer period of peak imperial destiny, thus allowing more time to explore the method of transformation.

The Blood Phoenix Emperor returned to the Blood Phoenix Ancient Star with the Divine Phoenix Elixir of Immortality. His successful attainment of Dao was a major event, and the Blood Phoenix Clan reached an unprecedented peak status.

Although their peak period was when they were the core tribe of the Undying God Dynasty and had kinship with the Undying Empress, resulting in their overall strength being far superior to what it is now, these things are ultimately not the ultimate foundation that can make a decisive difference.

The greatest strength lies in the ability to produce a true emperor. With an emperor in charge, resources and talent are not major problems for an invincible being of this level.

Therefore, in this era with the birth of the Blood Phoenix Emperor, the Blood Phoenix clan will inevitably surpass the past and reach an even greater peak.

Although the Blood Phoenix Emperor was full of inspiration and wanted to quickly immerse himself in cultivation, he still had deep feelings for his race. Therefore, he postponed his cultivation and put the affairs of the Blood Phoenix Clan first.

The Blood Phoenix Emperor first passed down his scriptures and supernatural powers, and then improved the secret technique he had previously cultivated from the Undying Emperor, lowering the threshold so that his own people could also master it, thereby enhancing the overall bloodline strength of the Blood Phoenix clan and subtly increasing the overall strength of the Blood Phoenix clan.

Subsequently, the Blood Phoenix Emperor also deployed multiple Imperial Dao array patterns within the Blood Phoenix Ancient Star to strengthen the protection of the ancestral star.

The supreme holy land of the Blood Phoenix Clan is also a sacred mountain called Blood Phoenix Mountain. Legend has it that their ancestor was born on this sacred mountain and eventually gave birth to their descendants.

The terrain of this sacred mountain resembles the phoenix's rebirth, and within it lies a faint outline of a natural phoenix nest. In terms of its mystique alone, it is no less remarkable than Purple Mountain, where nine dragons guard a single pearl.

However, Purple Mountain has undergone significant evolution due to the repeated modifications and enhancements made by the Undying Emperor using array patterns and the power of faith. Therefore, Blood Phoenix Mountain is no longer comparable to it.

Since the Blood Phoenix Emperor has become a ruler, Blood Phoenix Mountain has naturally become his training ground, and the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine is also temporarily residing here.

The Blood Phoenix Emperor used Blood Phoenix Mountain as the core to gather and control the array patterns he left behind, forming a complex, interconnected array.

After that, the Blood Phoenix Emperor also placed his Dao-proving treasure, a phoenix-winged gilded halberd made of phoenix blood and crimson gold, as the Blood Phoenix Clan's heirloom imperial weapon in the center of the great formation.

At this point, the guardian system of Blood Phoenix Ancient Star is fully completed.

As for the area outside Blood Phoenix Ancient Star, the territories that the Blood Phoenix clan had previously lost were naturally no longer occupied after he became emperor. Not only were they returned in full, but they were also given more compensation. After all, if the current emperor wanted to completely eliminate them, they would not only lose these things, but they might also face the crisis of death and extermination of their clan.

The Blood Phoenix Emperor didn't care much about this. With his carefully laid plans, the Blood Phoenix clan would eventually rise to power; he left these matters to his people to worry about.

Just as the Blood Phoenix Clan had fully stabilized and was about to begin a period of rapid growth, the Blood Phoenix Emperor summoned the other nine clans that had once been among the top ten clans of the Undying Divine Dynasty.

Under these circumstances, the other nine tribes thought that the Blood Phoenix Emperor might be going to rebuild the Undying God Dynasty. They all had mixed feelings, but they dared not refuse to come.

But in fact, the Blood Phoenix Emperor already knew that the Undying Emperor was still alive. Even if the Blood Phoenix Emperor had never considered this possibility, he would never have done it again.

He gathered these nine clans in order to deepen their weakened ties, so that they could be of one mind and support each other.

The Blood Phoenix Emperor understood that he would eventually leave the mortal universe to venture into another world or even the Immortal Realm. Therefore, these people left behind in the mortal world might be left unattended, and it was hard to say what they would become. He was doing this for his own sake, as well as for the divine generals under the Undying Emperor.

After all, they will most likely be fighting side by side in the future.

Of course, although the Phoenix Maidens' race has a thin bloodline and a small population, they still possess the true Phoenix bloodline. However, they have one of the ultimate imperial weapons left behind by Emperor Ning Fei, as well as a secret technique personally instructed by the Undying Emperor. Therefore, the Blood Phoenix Emperor only slightly modified this secret technique.

Ning Fei's clansmen help and support him, jointly controlling a portion of a supreme imperial weapon, so there's no need to worry too much about the Blood Phoenix Emperor.

As for the other seven divine generals' clansmen, the Blood Phoenix Emperor still expended some effort to leave them some resources for self-preservation.

After he further strengthened all ten races and established various cooperative and mutually beneficial relationships, the ten races once again became a relatively loose but very effective alliance.

From then on, the Blood Phoenix Emperor finally put aside all worldly affairs and could focus on cultivation.

So the Blood Phoenix Emperor came to Blood Phoenix Mountain and officially began his seclusion.

In this life, he will strive to further elevate his bloodline, thereby generating a sufficiently powerful Nirvana force to achieve progress.

As for other methods of achieving immortality obtained from various places, he would naturally study them carefully, but he placed them second.

After all, his bloodline was indeed the direction he was most confident in and experienced in exploring. This direction not only had the various research results of the Immortal Emperor as a reference, but also the Divine Phoenix Elixir of Immortality for him to study.

(End of this chapter)