Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 668 Nirvana
Time flies, and nearly 14,000 years have passed in the blink of an eye.

The Blood Phoenix Emperor was two thousand years old when he attained enlightenment, and the various things he did for his race afterwards totaled no more than a few hundred years. Therefore, by this calculation, the Blood Phoenix Emperor's first incarnation was already sixteen thousand years old. A lifespan of sixteen thousand years is clearly greater than that of an ordinary emperor.

Originally, although the Blood Phoenix Emperor's bloodline power was strong and unique, it was not strong enough to significantly extend his lifespan. In fact, he was just like the White Tiger Emperor of the past, and his lifespan would only reach its limit at most 15,000 years.

However, the Blood Phoenix Emperor was different from the White Tiger Emperor. He had the guidance of the Undying Emperor and gained a wealth of experience from him, which allowed him to discover the future direction early on and quickly come up with a way to further enhance his bloodline.

Therefore, in this life, the Blood Phoenix Emperor successfully advanced his bloodline, thereby extending his lifespan by a thousand years, which is why he lived to be sixteen thousand years old in his first life.

Of course, this is only one of the achievements. The Blood Phoenix Emperor's greatest achievement was to digest and absorb the various research results of the Undying Emperor and use them to study himself, thereby truly mastering the Phoenix Clan's power of rebirth.

Although the Blood Phoenix Clan also possesses the power of Nirvana, it is essentially more like a technique similar to the "Zhe" Secret. It is quite effective in repairing one's own injuries and adjusting one's own qi and blood. Even if it is not as good as the "Zhe" Secret, it is still enough to be unparalleled in the world. However, they have not mastered the true Nirvana from death to rebirth.

This is also the most crucial part that the human universe had to abandon when it was nurturing their lineage, because its own conditions were no longer as glorious as before and it could not fully replicate the power of the Phoenix Clan.

Lacking true Nirvana power, the Blood Phoenix clan would likely find it difficult to compare with true immortal phoenixes, even if the Blood Phoenix Emperor himself were to become a true immortal in the future.

Even if they mastered the Phoenix Technique, they still couldn't compare to a real phoenix.

The Fire Queen can regain the complete bloodline of the Phoenix Clan through Nirvana because she herself was a Holy Spirit transformed from the primordial fire left behind by a true immortal phoenix after its death.

But the Blood Phoenix clan is different; they don't have such a relationship with the real phoenix.

However, although they do not possess the power of Nirvana in their bloodline, thanks to their close proximity to the Phoenix lineage, mastering the Phoenix Treasure Technique is much easier for them than for other races. In fact, many descendants of the Phoenix bloodline are not as good as them.

As an unparalleled genius of the Blood Phoenix Clan, the Blood Phoenix Emperor was able to attain the Dao and become an emperor in this degenerate age of the human universe. His talent was considered extremely high even in the Immortal Realm. Therefore, he could not only learn the Nirvana Method in the Phoenix Treasure Technique, but also push it to an extremely high level.

He now has the potential to achieve a rebirth through this, thus living in the next life. However, the problem is that although he has mastered the power of rebirth, he has not yet had the chance to fully control it.

Therefore, even the Blood Phoenix Emperor began to hesitate at this moment.

He has mastered the method of Nirvana, but because he is not a true Phoenix bloodline, he cannot undergo Nirvana multiple times using this method. In other words, although the Blood Phoenix Emperor may achieve Nirvana and thus live a new life, he only has one chance, and given the Nirvana method he has mastered, the probability of failure is not low.

The simplest choice for the Blood Phoenix Emperor is naturally to live a second life directly with the Divine Phoenix Elixir of Immortality, and in the next life, to continuously improve his mastery of the Nirvana Method, thereby attempting to live a third life through this method.

But after pondering for a long time, Blood Phoenix Emperor finally found a good method among the various methods passed down to him by the Undying Emperor.

He forced his decaying, rotting body, which was nearing the end of its life, to use the Divine Phoenix Elixir of Immortality as its core, and combined it with various divine treasures of heaven and earth to refine a batch of Nirvana Immortal Elixir.

The Blood Phoenix Emperor intends to undergo Nirvana within this Nirvana Elixir, protected by the enhanced divinity of the Divine Phoenix Immortal Elixir's fruit, ensuring rebirth even if this Nirvana fails. In truth, this Nirvana Elixir is a variant of the Immortal Elixir once refined by the Immortal Emperor. The Blood Phoenix Emperor has modified the formula to better suit his Blood Phoenix physique.

After completing the preparations, the Blood Phoenix Emperor entered the Nirvana Elixir and began to activate the power of Nirvana.

Before the formal Nirvana began, the Blood Phoenix Emperor also transferred the Divine Phoenix Immortal Elixir into the Nirvana Elixir, allowing it to connect with his own aura so that he could better comprehend the laws within and better utilize his Nirvana power.

Blood Phoenix Emperor closed his eyes, and his already near-collapse aura completely subsided. His physical body gradually lost its vitality and, under the influence of the power of Nirvana, turned into a ball of flesh.

Under the mysterious influence of the Nirvana Elixir and the Divine Phoenix Elixir of Immortality, the Blood Phoenix Emperor began his own Nirvana process.

At the same time, cultivators in the human universe were also plunged into a period of confusion.

Although the Blood Phoenix Emperor's aura seemed about to dissipate, remaining elusive from the Heavenly Heart Mark, it never truly separated from it.

What's going on here? Whether the Blood Phoenix Emperor passes away or ascends to immortality, his aura of the Great Dao will begin to dissipate, ushering in a recovery period that will last for ten thousand years.

However, although the Blood Phoenix Emperor's aura is clearly on the verge of collapse, it still persists and maintains its suppression over future generations. In other words, the Blood Phoenix Emperor is currently in a state of being half-alive and half-dead.

Could it be that he is about to undergo a transformation, and this is the process of that transformation? Or has his transformation already failed, and he is just clinging to life?

At this time, only a very few cultivators discovered from old documents that a similar situation had occurred when the Immortal Emperor was alive.

Therefore, they could only guess that the Blood Phoenix Emperor might have used the same method as the Undying Emperor of yesteryear to transform, which is why it exhibited similar behavior.

Of course, the ten great clans of the Undying Divine Dynasty, including the Blood Phoenix Clan, were well aware of this, so they weren't too worried.

And so, time passed little by little, yet the Blood Phoenix Emperor's aura remained unchanged.

Finally, four thousand years after the Blood Phoenix Emperor entered this state, the situation changed. The Blood Phoenix Emperor's Dao aura, which had been in a semi-collapsed state, suddenly became active. In the boundless sky, a blood-red divine phoenix faintly appeared, emitting a clear cry that instantly caused all Daos to resonate in harmony.

This renewed surge of supreme power naturally shook the universe, allowing cultivators throughout the human world to perceive the news of his second life.

Within Blood Phoenix Mountain, the Blood Phoenix Emperor emerged from its fleshy shell, regaining its youth.

(End of this chapter)