Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 899 Proving the Dao
After leaving this place of sorrow, Duan De chose a brand new ancient planet with life as his new starting point, determined to regroup here and continue to carry forward his archaeological career.

Furthermore, he had an additional goal: to find a way to remove the curse from his body within these tombs.

Duan De himself had no way to get rid of it, but its ineradicable nature, like a maggot clinging to a bone, made him deeply resentful. Therefore, he could only look for a solution in other ancient tombs.

After all, since this curse power is different from all existing curse methods, it may be a special curse method from some ancient era. Therefore, the only way to remove it is to place our hopes on the discovery of related Dao and Dharma in tombs similar to it.

Moreover, a change of environment might change his luck; otherwise, with his previous fortune, he would face numerous difficulties whether he wanted to go into tombs or cultivate.

With high hopes, Duan De embarked on a new journey.

Soon, Duan De discovered that his bad luck seemed to be as unshakable as the curse. Even if he moved to other places, he would still encounter various dangerous situations by chance, which made little difference to him.

However, driven by his instinct to excavate various underground tombs and ruins, his personal interest in these things, and the need to break his own curse, he had to take the risk.

Therefore, Duan De had no choice but to spend a lot of effort on his cultivation to achieve perfection, making himself invincible in the human universe, in order to weaken his curse and no longer be able to follow the natural course of events as he had at the beginning.

Seeing that Duan De's cultivation had gotten on the right track, Yuanshi Tianzun stopped paying special attention to Duan De and continued his own cultivation.

And so, as time went by, Duan De's name grew louder and louder, and he became a celebrity. However, this name was clearly not a good one.

This greatly frustrated Duan De. He had originally planned to make a fortune quietly, but now it seemed impossible. With his bad luck, none of the major things he did could be hidden from others; they were always discovered.

Therefore, wherever he went, countless people would be watching his every move. After all, everyone knew that he was exceptionally accomplished in the study of tombs and could find all sorts of ancient artifacts; following him meant you could get a share of the profits.

Throughout this process, Duan De's various strengths were astonishingly powerful, displaying the brilliance of a peerless genius in the human universe. In other words, he was a prodigy who excelled in both paths and reached the pinnacle in both.

Therefore, Duan De even began to be frequently challenged by geniuses from other regions and races, and was regarded as one of the most powerful contenders for the path to enlightenment in this generation.

Two hundred years after Duan De's birth, his cultivation had reached the Great Saint Realm, and his reputation had spread throughout multiple star regions, making it difficult for him to hide his identity and disappear without a trace.

During this period, Duan De was doing his best to improve his Tao and Dharma, while also trying to find various ways to remove the power of his curse.

Ultimately, however, he achieved very little, and in some cases, his methods even made the curse power more active.

Therefore, Duan De had no choice but to give up on finding a solution from external forces and place his hopes on his own cultivation. After all, based on his experience of resisting the effects of the curse many times over the years, his Tribulation-Crossing Heavenly Art could indeed work against this curse's power.

Moreover, the most crucial point is that as his cultivation level increases, the strength of this curse also rises accordingly, forcing him to shift some of his tomb-exploration time to his own cultivation.

After much deliberation, Duan De chose to embark on the Ancient Starry Road and decided to visit the Ultimate Ancient Road.

Firstly, for someone who has achieved the Great Saint Realm, reaching the pinnacle of this realm and thus overcoming the curse is no easy feat. The trials of the Ultimate Ancient Road can help him gain deeper accumulation.

Secondly, Duan De still held a sliver of hope, believing that perhaps the Ultimate Ancient Road held some opportunity to resolve his curse. After all, the Ultimate Ancient Road was undoubtedly one of the most promising places in the human universe, brimming with opportunities and involving many cultivators. Perhaps one of these opportunities was related to the curse, or at least could weaken it.

Even if it's completely useless, if it can help him further improve his Tribulation Transcending Heavenly Technique, it can indirectly help him fight against the power of the curse.

Thirdly, as Duan De committed more and more crimes, the number of cultivators from all walks of life who were eyeing him also increased. Duan De was worried that he would be surrounded and killed by these people, making it difficult for him to continue cultivating peacefully in the human universe.

After all, he was really unlucky, and it was difficult for him to hide his whereabouts and avoid being exposed by various accidents.

Only a very small number of people can enter the ultimate ancient road, and the strength of the cultivators there is relatively fixed, so it is not difficult for him to deal with them.

In other words, Duan De was actually thinking of seeking refuge.

After entering the ultimate ancient road, Duan De naturally became the target of everyone's hatred.

Firstly, he had excavated many large tombs, and even though he had never succeeded in completely plundering any of them, he was still quite wealthy and rich.
Secondly, many of the large tombs that Duan De had excavated were related to the ancestors of some of the most outstanding talents in the universe, which had already created enmity between them.

Thirdly, although Duan De did not like fighting and was not skilled in it, his strength was extremely powerful. It can be said that even in this era where many geniuses were born because of the feedback from the Primordial Celestial Venerable, Duan De, who was forced by the curse to develop his full potential and thus reached the extreme in every realm, could be considered a top genius.

In this situation, Duan De's potential was maximized, making him increasingly powerful.

As time went by, three hundred years passed in the blink of an eye. Duan De, who had been born for five hundred years, successfully ascended to the quasi-emperor level, overpowering all others and becoming the most powerful genius of this era.

In the years that followed, Duan De continued to advance bravely and diligently, constantly breaking through his limits. Finally, when he was a thousand years old, Duan De completed the accumulation of his ultimate leap.

However, due to the unique nature of the path he took, Duan De was not able to directly attain enlightenment. Instead, he was restricted by the reincarnation seal within his body and stepped into an alternative path to enlightenment first.

It was at this moment that Duan De realized that the curse he was afflicted with was not of this world. After all, even a curse cast by a Dao Prover could not have corrupted the immortal artifact and several reincarnation seals that were dormant within him. Moreover, the power of the curse within him was still rising, forcing him to continue breaking through to withstand it.

Thus, Duan De's original idea of ​​achieving complete enlightenment in a completely unconventional way and reaching a level comparable to that of a Daoist would be utterly thwarted. He must now attempt to attain Dao and go further in order to resist this terrifying curse and find a way to break it.

Therefore, Duan De continued his arduous cultivation under these circumstances, striving to perfect his Dao fruition and constantly improve his realm with a meticulous attitude.

At the age of 1,500, Duan De reached a level of completely unconventional enlightenment; at the age of 2,000, Duan De achieved a level comparable to true enlightened beings with his unconventional enlightenment.

This was originally the end point that Duan De should have reached in this life, but now, Duan De must take this as a starting point and move on to the next stage.

Thus, he triggered the great tribulation of enlightenment.

(End of this chapter)