Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 897 Duan De's Misfortune

After determining these things, that is, the basic direction, Liang Yu and Yuanshi Tianzun began to study how to change the human universe and make it into the way they wanted it to be.

For the two of them, completely transforming the human universe into a complete great world is not a problem. Therefore, completing their plan is just a bit more trivial, with more issues to consider, and they need to pay special attention to precisely control their impact on the human universe.

After each of them deduced and compared the patterns of the human universe, they were able to determine the optimal solution for its evolution.

Thus, the question of the future evolution of the human universe was quickly put aside, and it could be formally addressed once the Celestial Venerable of Morality and the Celestial Venerable of Spiritual Treasure emerged from seclusion.

Of course, Liang Yu had another reason: he was somewhat obsessive-compulsive and hoped that the moment when the human universe was undergoing a dramatic change would coincide with the transition of eras, so that the cultivators of the human universe could adapt to such changes to the greatest extent possible.

Afterwards, Liang Yu said, "Fellow Daoist Yuanshi, since the future has been decided, we should each cultivate and wait for the other two to be born. After rearranging the human universe and the immortal realm, it will be time for us to go to the Boundary Sea, hone ourselves, and explore the path to becoming a king and an emperor."

Yuanshi Tianzun said, "Fellow Daoist Wuji, please continue your cultivation. I still have some things to do."

Seeing the somewhat malicious smile on Yuanshi Tianzun's face, Liang Yu couldn't help but chuckle: "He is, after all, your master. Fellow Daoist Yuanshi, don't go too far."

Yuanshi Tianzun said, "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."

Liang Yu shook his head and said, "Since that's the case, I think this method should be useful. Fellow Daoist Yuanshi can take it into consideration."

After saying this, he immediately began his seclusion again, intending to comprehend and deconstruct the mysteries of his cultivation system that he had obtained from Yuanshi Tianzun, in order to improve his own cultivation system and thus advance to a higher level.

Meanwhile, Yuanshi Tianzun left Wuji Immortal Mountain and came to the human universe, where he set his sights on a fat Taoist priest.

Yuanshi Tianzun has now become a Celestial King, and a powerful one at that. Naturally, he cannot tolerate his master just drifting along like this, and he wants to urge him to make progress.

Although a master doesn't necessarily have to be stronger than a disciple, and Yuanshi Tianzun's growth wasn't that much related to Duan De, the title alone meant that Yuanshi Tianzun couldn't take it lightly.

Therefore, he must help his master Duan De achieve even greater success, reach the pinnacle of the immortal path in the mortal world, and break through the limits, rather than simply achieving what Duan De himself had predicted, considering it a success.

At this moment, Duan De was naturally unaware that he had been targeted by his good apprentice.

After meeting Liang Yu and Yuanshi Tianzun, he felt a deep sense of envy, knowing that they had reached a higher realm and were no longer on his level. Although he didn't know exactly how far a Celestial King could go, it was certainly beyond his current reach.

So, before his memories were erased, Duan De immediately used his powerful body to tear through the void, leaving the ancient primordial star and arriving at a brand new ancient life star as the starting point of his current life.

After all, if they started on the ancient star as originally planned, they would be right under the nose of his disciple, Yuanshi Tianzun, and he felt uneasy about it.

Of course, for the current Primordial Celestial Venerable, as long as he doesn't leave the human universe, that place is under his watchful eye.

Therefore, Duan De's whereabouts naturally could not escape his investigation. As in the past, even after erasing his memories and starting over, Duan De still started with the classic method of digging up graves to accumulate initial capital for himself and thus rise rapidly.

Thanks to his past accumulation, even without his memory, he mastered extremely advanced knowledge of burial science within just a few years and started his old profession again.

But unexpectedly, Duan De began to sense something was wrong. Although he hadn't been going into the tomb frequently, in the few times he had gone, he would always summon the various protective measures left in the tomb due to various unexpected factors, forcing him to escape with his life hanging by a thread, and he would gain very little.

The most crucial point is that his tomb raiding activities were always discovered unexpectedly and then spread rapidly. Afterwards, a large number of relatives, friends, and descendants of the tomb owners would come to hunt him down, causing him immense suffering.

Each time, Duan De was absolutely certain that this was an unexpected situation that could not possibly happen multiple times. However, every time he went down into the tomb, all sorts of completely different unexpected events would occur, leading the situation to the worst possible outcome.

Am I cursed?
Duan De was completely baffled and could only attribute it to his exceptional skills, which had incurred the wrath of the heavens.

In every subsequent operation, he tried his best to achieve perfection, and at the same time began to spend a lot of time and energy on his cultivation, hoping to gain a stronger cultivation level so that he would be fearless even if he was discovered.

Finally, Duan De unexpectedly learned that a tomb from the mythological era had been unearthed on this ancient star, and that it was vaguely related to an ancient celestial being. In an instant, many forces on this ancient star went crazy and began to frantically explore and collect the tomb, but with little success.

Previously, Duan De had become somewhat cautious due to various unexpected events. After discovering through a series of indirect methods that the tomb was likely genuine, the immense profits still clouded his judgment, leading him to decide to take the risk.

As long as he can obtain enough relics, what does it matter if he becomes an enemy of the world? In any case, he has already planned to make a strategic retreat, leave this ancient planet of life, get away from this place where everyone hates him, and open up a new world.

So Duan De gritted his teeth and participated in the excavation of the tomb.

Thanks to his extraordinary courage and superb professional skills, Duan De, despite his not particularly high level of cultivation, became one of the fastest-progressing cultivators.

This time, Duan De found himself to be divinely aided. No unexpected events disrupted his plans, and everything went surprisingly smoothly, making him almost unable to believe that he could be so lucky.

He even took advantage of this momentum to use various methods within the ancient tomb to eliminate dissidents, thereby forcing out the most threatening individuals.

Under these circumstances, Duan De thought his luck was about to change, and even hesitated about whether to leave this ancient star.

Soon, Duan De successfully entered one of the core areas of the tomb and saw a stone coffin. After making thorough preparations, he excitedly opened the coffin, only to find an ancient corpse inside that looked like a vengeful ghost.

The corpse got up, gave him a cackling laugh, and then turned into a cloud of blood mist and entered Duan De's body.

He was cursed.

(End of this chapter)